Matthew Ingram argumentiert auf GigaOm, warum die heute bekannt gewordenen Festplattenvernichtungen beim Guardian durch britische Geheimdienstmitarbeiter und die anlasslose Festhaltung des Partners von Journalist Glenn Greenwald erneut zeigen, warum wir staatenlose Nachrichteninstitutionen wie Wikileaks brauchen:
While the idea of WikiLeaks as a media entity is not universally accepted, I and others have argued that it deserves to be thought of in that way: journalism professor Jay Rosen has called it the “first stateless news organization,” and Harvard legal scholar Yochai Benkler has made a persuasive case — both in his writings and in testimony at the Bradley Manning trial — that WikiLeaks is a crucial part of what he calls “the networked Fourth Estate.”
Es geht auch nicht um Wikileaks im speziellen und den leicht egomanischen Assange sondern um die Organisationsform selbst:
… WeiterlesenEven if WikiLeaks isn’t the best candidate for this kind of entity, either because of Assange’s personal behavior or his management style — or both — there arguably needs to be something similar.
Christiane Schulzki-Haddouti fasst