The World Needs Wikileaks

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“KEEP US STRONG, HELP WIKILEAKS KEEP GOVERNMENTS OPEN,” Wikileaks states in its website. Since 2006 Wikileaks has been known as an organization that provides people the secrets of governments. After it was originally launched, it published 1.2 million documents within its first year. Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder, has said that Wikileaks is an international non-profit organization that publishes documents of private, secret, and classified media from anonymous sources and news leaks. Although Julian Assange is described as being the starter of Wikileaks, it has founders of Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians, and technologists from multiple countries, including the United States. Last year, the New York City Daily News listed Wikileaks as the first website “that could totally change the news.” Wikileaks has stated its “primary interest is in exposing oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan African and the Middle East, but we also expect to be of assistance to people of all regions who wish to reveal unethical behavior in their governments and corporations" . In other words, Wikileaks is described as the world’s first stateless news organization.

Nevertheless, Wikileaks makes the governments of many nations feel stressed when their secrets are being posted on Wikileaks without their awareness. For these governments, especially the U.S, Wikileaks is a terrorist organization that makes their societies be out of their control. Many Americans support Wikileaks because they believe that it is protected by the First Amendment, the right to Free Speech and Freedom of the Press. However, because of national security, many legislators have discussed curtailing the First Amendment to prevent Wikilea...

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