Wikicoup?
Monday, January 22, 2007
Hard to know if this will amount to anything, but it sure is fascinating: Wikileaks, a user-generated leak blog for documents in oppressive regimes. Here's TIME's take:
By March, more than one million leaked documents from governments and corporations in Asia, the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa and the former Soviet Bloc will be available online in a bold new collective experiment in whistleblowing. That is, of course, as long as you don't accept any of the conspiracy theories brewing that Wikileaks.org could be a front for the CIA or some other intelligence agency.
The website claims that it will use the same software platform as Wikipedia, the wildly popular online grassroots encyclopedia, to let users anonymously post documents and analyze them. In theory, this system will protect leakers' identities while exposing government and corporate corruption worldwide.
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Posted by B Feiler at 6:51 PM
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