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So can spying on the Taliban?Evo said:Let's not get silly. This can be considered International espionage.
The only difference is that the US is a big player you don't want to offend, just as China is.
Sure, you know they blocked a lot more sites which are simply 'critical towards the Australian government', or sites that have to do with self-help with suicide for instance.Do you know that the wikileaks site is blocked by the Australian government?
I personally don't believe in censorship as you probably already gathered, I also don't believe that 'x blocking y' is a good metre to determine whatever from y. I mean, China blocks youtube, is youtube now an evil?
Of course, some of the biggest censors of all times were the Taliban, and that's a road I don't want to go down to myself. I draw the line at a very clear and transparent point, at 0, which is similar to the views Assange holds I guess, reading up on him.
Don't get me wrong, I do think that an organisation has the right to protect its secrets, as in, to stop others from obtaining that information, possibly through the bullwhip of its own employes or staff. I also feel however that once information is out there it's free for all to use, information is not created, it has always existed and will always exist. It's not a conservative magnitude like mass or energy, I don't see how any person can 'own' it or control how it is used.
I guess this depends on if you side with the cause of the US/UN here or not. If you do, then these people are heroes, if you side with the Taliban, they are traitors. As said, it's in the eye of the beholder.Proton Soup said:since when are collaborators innocent people?
I prefer to not use such terms in the absolute sense, but rather 'traitor with respect to ...', in that sense, the person that leaked it is a traitor with respect to the US, and a hero with respect to the Taliban, Assange is neither because he never took an oath of loyalty to either faction.