{"id":4027,"date":"2011-02-07T09:16:21","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T17:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4027"},"modified":"2011-02-07T09:16:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T17:16:21","slug":"a-new-wikileaks-competitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/07\/a-new-wikileaks-competitor\/","title":{"rendered":"A New WikiLeaks Competitor"},"content":{"rendered":"

For some, Julian Assange is a hero.  For others, he\u2019s a criminal.  I tend to hold more to the former, but it cannot be denied that some of his associates are not happy with how he has managed WikiLeaks.  As a result, they are forming a competitive website called OpenLeaks.  Will the new site be worthy of support?<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"7OPENLEAKS\"As the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange fights extradition to Sweden to face allegations of sexual wrongdoing, a dozen of his former colleagues are creating an alternative Web site for leaks to be governed by what they characterize as a revised vision of radical transparency<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

The new organization, OpenLeaks, will begin work in earnest this summer<\/strong>, said Herbert Snorrason, an Icelandic programmer who is involved. It aims, he said, to avoid the \u201cinfluence of a single figurehead\u201d<\/strong> by refusing to handle documents itself. Instead, it will act as a neutral conduit to connect leakers with media and human rights organizations<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

OpenLeaks emerges from the ashes of a struggle between Mr. Assange and many of his closest associates last September. About a dozen members of WikiLeaks left that month, accusing Mr. Assange of imperious behavior and of jeopardizing the project by conflating the allegations of sexual wrongdoing, which he denies, with the site\u2019s work. The defectors, Mr. Snorrason said, decided to start their own project. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s no secret that we had disagreements with how WikiLeaks was being managed,\u201d he said, \u201cand a large part of what we hope to accomplish with OpenLeaks is to avoid those problems.\u201d <\/p>\n

Mr. Assange has often said that he sees it as his mission, in part, to raise awareness of the material WikiLeaks releases by increasing its public profile. It is a strategy that has kept the documents he has released \u2014 including hundreds of thousands of classified United States government documents \u2014 on the front pages of newspapers around the world, including The New York Times. But it has also meant that Mr. Assange, a mercurial and charismatic figure with strong political views and a penchant for the unorthodox and newsworthy, has often become the story himself… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Personally I think we all owe a debt of gratitude to Julian Assange, but I see the difficulties of identifying the credibility of the site with that of a single individual.  We cannot know the quality of OpenLeaks until we can observe the results of their work, but I\u2019m inclined to support it, while simultaneously supporting WikiLeaks.  More than one source is a plus.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For some, Julian Assange is a hero.  For others, he\u2019s a criminal.  I tend to hold more to the former, but it cannot be denied that some of his associates are not happy with how he has managed WikiLeaks.  As a result, they are forming a competitive website called OpenLeaks.  Will the new site be […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}