WikiLeaks was created in 2006 and has gained many followers over the last four years. Is this because today’s society is more tech savvy? Or more people have access to the internet now? Is it because the information that been published on the site is more closely related to today’s society? Or is it just rebels trying to find a fresh news site? The news posted on this site was not about well known people it was about soldiers, people that we might know. Is this site just like celebrity news for the common people? How far can we push secret telling? Will it ever turn into something such as leaking a friend's secret to the world? Where does the site draw a line of what secrets are important enough to be on the site?
A big concern people have with wikis is that they might be biased. Information has always been bias. Newspapers, radio stations, television stations, word of mouth, etc. all these forms of communication have some sort of bias. Can we ever have unbiased news? Freedom of press would then be controlled by the influence of the website. If the influences did not like what the user was saying then they do not have allow it on the site. Can a website ever be fully unbiased in the information it holds? Does this just mean the author needs to look for a different site to host their information?
The biggest issue that rose was about secrets in general. Many people have stated that we are able to handle hearing these secrets. Was the society before us better off not knowing the secrets? Will this lead to world peace or self destruction? Does leaking these secrets to the world better the world as a whole or just make things more chaotic? It would be ideal if there was no need for secrets but will that ever happen? Does sheltering society from harsh reality actually help keep the peace among each other? Or will the hate towards these wrong doers ban us together?
Sunday, December 19, 2010
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