I've been meaning to write something about WikiLeaks for days, but I don't seem to have any time, as I spend any excess minutes I might have reading about WikiLeaks and interpreting it for others. So many people have no idea what a wiki is, what WikiLeaks is, how it differs from Wikipedia, that I feel called upon to try and educate them.
The bizarreness of Sarah Palin calling for Julian Assange's death for not actually breaking any US laws, but embarrassing the hell out of the State Department, coupled with the Chinese calling Liu Xiaobo (the Nobel Peace Prize winner 2010) a terrorist makes me wonder if I have slipped over to some parallel universe where common sense and logical thinking have disappeared and been replaced by Newspeak and Big Brother. Or Sister.
Anyway, this is the best comment on WikiLeaks that I have found for a number of days:
Oh, and I really want to see the list of all the other guys who had broken condoms and are now being sought world-wide by Interpol. 'Cause I now expect them to go after each and every one. And after the guys who did worse.
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ja, dieses Thema laesst mir auch keine Ruhe; es steht in engstem Zusammenhang mit dem von Dir gerade zitierten Weizenbaum (I paraphrase citing his closing remarks a little, I trust he would not have disagreed with me): ...
Der meiste Schaden, den der Computer potentiell zur Folge haben könnte, hängt weniger davon ab, was der Computer tatsächlich machen kann oder nicht kann, als vielmehr von den Eigenschaften, die man dem Computer zuschreibt.
...
Der Nichtfachmann hat überhaupt keine andere Wahl, als dem Computer die Eigenschaften zuzuordnen, die durch die von der Presse verstärkte Propaganda zu ihm dringen. Da hat der Informatiker eine enorme Verantwortung...
Die Informatik hat leider (fast) keine Tradition von kritischer Gelehrsamkeit, weniger noch wie andere etablierte Wissenschaften. Ich betrachte es als eine der wichtigsten Aufgaben eines Fachbereichs für Informatik an einer Universität, den Studenten seiner Verantwortung zu sozialer Kritik bewusst zu machen, insbesondere durch das Beispiel der Lehrenden.
Der Informatiker muss sich stets bewußt sein, daß seine Instrumente ungeheuerlich verstärkende Wirkungen haben, sowohl direkt als auch indirekt. Ein Programm kann ernsthafte Folgen haben, auch den Verlust von Menschenleben und Menschenrechten, beabsichtigt oder fehlerhaft. Die allgemeine Zensur verhindert, daß wir erfahren...
Der Informatiker hat daher die schwerwiegende Verantwortung, die Fehlbarkeit und Begrenztheit der Systeme, die er entwerfen kann, äußerst klarzumachen. Gerade die Wirkungsmöglichkeiten seiner Systeme sollten ihn zögern lassen, bereitwillig seinen Rat zu erteilen, und sollten ihn veranlassen, den Wirkungskreis seiner geplanten Arbeit einzuschränken.
Die Grundfrage des Informatikers ist die gleiche, die sich jeder Wissenschaftler, ja, jeder Mensch stellen muß. Nicht „Was soll ich tun", sondern vielmehr „Was sollte ich vielleicht doch besser bleiben lassen."
also not to be missed Thomas Friedman's "From WikiChina" commentary on Nov. 30 in the NY-Times:
I couldn’t help but wonder: What if China had a WikiLeaker and we could see what its embassy in Washington was reporting about America? I suspect the cable would read like this:
(see http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/01/opinion/01friedman.html?_r=2&pagewanted=print)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/dec/06/western-democracies-must-live-with-leaks
...and if you haven't been reading the Techdirt blog (techdirt.com), today's post might make you want to start:
"Interesting Timing: Senate Passes Federal Whistleblower Protection Bill"
...in the earlier (Dec 13) Techdirt coverage "The US's Reaction To Wikileaks Is Doing A Lot More Harm Than The Leaks Themselves" Mike Masnick points us onward to another worthwhile read with: ...this blog post by Jack Goldsmith succinctly summarizes how backwards and damaging the US's response to Wikileaks has been.
(Jack Goldsmith is the Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Law at Harvard University and recent author of 'The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside The Bush Administration')
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