WIKI LEAKS

WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks

Introduction

WikiLeaks is a global, not for profit organization, which circulates assents of undercover, clandestine and private media through news leaks and anonymous news sources. This website, initiated in 2006, stated a record of over 1200000 documents in one year of their commencement. WikiLeaks expresses its creators being a joint of Chinese nonconformists, reporters, start-up company technologists, and mathematician from the U.S., South Africa, Australia, Europe, and Taiwan. (Matthew, 6) An Australian Internet activist Julian Assange is by, and large referred like its director. The site was initial commences being a user editable "wiki" but has gradually transformed to a new traditionalist site and no more acknowledges any user remarks or amends.

WikiLeaks, its goals and its controversial nature

WikiLeaks is a nonprofit media organization initiated in 2007. It is a whistleblower website at the centre of a storm, disclosing more than 250,000 American political dispatches. They claim that their aim is to bring significant news and information to the masses. WikiLeaks claims to give a ground-breaking, safe and anonymous means for sources to reveal information to their reporters through its electronic drop box. The website has won several awards, including the New Media Award in2008 from Economist magazine. With the slogan of "We open governments”, WikiLeaks was established by Julian Assange in April 2010, when it posted a video from an incident of 2007 which show Iraqi civilians being executed by American armed forces, upon a site known as Collateral Murder.

The American government in response to disclosures of WikiLeaks about the Afghan and Iraq wars claim that such leaks are causing danger to the lives of U.S. soldiers and diplomats. "Such Revelations cause risk for our intelligence professionals, diplomats, and people across the globe that come to America for support in promoting open government and democracy the White House stated. “By making government, such stolen documents, WikiLeaks has endangered not only the basis of human rights but, in addition the lives and work, of these individuals.

WikiLeaks; A danger for the security of nations

The U.S. has warned the whistle-blower website upon releasing their secret documents, part of a trove of a quarter million American diplomatic cables -- mainly from the previous 3 years -- the website plans to leak them in stages. The United States claims it has known for some time that WikiLeaks held the diplomatic cables. No one is charged with passing them to the website; however, doubts ...