> Theres a theory that WIKILEAKS has been a FSB front since 2010
...linking to a post on /r/conspiracy.
There are also a theories, in the very same sub, that drinking is own urine is better the chemotherapy [0], that China has floating cities in parallel universe [1] and that Ahmed Mohammed is a "clock bomb hoaxer" [2].
Please keep on improving our discussion with wonderful sources like /r/conspiracy.
"He did nothing wrong, therefore he has nothing to hide".
Are you really questioning the fact that this was made public while NSA, CIA and other agencies have been wiping their asses with the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution and the Article 8 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
No one is questioning that it was made public, rather, that Wikileaks decided to latch on to a data leak that kind of shares the same trollish territory as leaking nude celebrity photos.
Running with the Chelsea Manning leak helped start a conversation about the ethics of drone warfare and the culpability of the US military in the deaths of civilians.
What kind of a wider conversation does leaking John Brennan's SF-86 create? Maybe there's some ancillary discussion about those in the security community not using secure channels but it mostly just feels like a cheap shot.
> What kind of a wider conversation does leaking John Brennan's SF-86 create?
Does it necessarily have to create a conversation?
It, at the very least, destroys yet another time the "nothing to hide" argument and underlines both the fact that nobody is safe unless active measures are taken and that all this spying business is tainted with serious amateurism.
And if this is worthless to you, see it as a backlash. Our personal informations are intercepted on a daily basis and played with in a way that we have no control over. The average Joe, alone, can't fight back, Wikileaks is the collective answer.
It is in-line with Trevor Paglen's work [1] on demystifying spying activities: they're no super heroes, they're bound to physical, practical and logistical limitations (like we all are), we can fight them.
I live in Europe, and from here, your comments sounds like the grumblings of someone born and raised in some far shore of the USA where creationism is still taught at school and who genuinely believes that more guns are required to prevent mass shootings.
> have no budget, no endorsements, a tiny donor base, no institutional support from the Democratic party, no grass-roots campaign organization
That's the very reason why the American system is fucked up : you shouldn't get a chance to get elected for the sole reason that you have any of these.
And I'm not pretending that European models are perfect, far from that. They are just less fucked up - North American elections look like a joke from here, almost as much as South African "democracies"/North Koea where they are president from father to son and get elected with scores approaching 90%. The only downside to the joke is that USA are far more powerful than NK.
> a billionaire with universal name-recognition like Trump
Outside of the US, nobody knows who he is.
I'm 27, engineer, speak four languages and have traveled around Europe, North Africa, "Middle-East", and South Asia.
The only things that I knew about him prior to the 2016 presidential campaign were that he is an eccentric billionaire and has/had alleged bounds to the mafia (and the only reason why I knew that is because I care about national North American politics - which most of the non-USA residents don't give a shit about). Since then, the only time he is referred to in the European media is to underline the stupidity of his statements/behavior.
On the other hand, I've learned about Lessig during highschool : his legal challenges ; his role at Harvard, Yale and Standford ; his role in the creation of Create Commons, etc. He is seen as a dedicated, brilliant, man who tries and tackles tough issues. Every educated person knows or at least have heard about Lessig and/or Creative Commons.
...linking to a post on /r/conspiracy.
There are also a theories, in the very same sub, that drinking is own urine is better the chemotherapy [0], that China has floating cities in parallel universe [1] and that Ahmed Mohammed is a "clock bomb hoaxer" [2].
Please keep on improving our discussion with wonderful sources like /r/conspiracy.
[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/3pp1z3/woman_wi...
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/3psibh/another_...
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/3psun2/ahmed_th...