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I'm thinking we need a federated wiki leaks. Post your "secrets" and they propagate all over the world in a few minutes.
Wikileaks was centralised because they would not publish anything that would imminently endanger lives or ongoing operations. There was a detailed verification process to make sure the leaks were legit, and redacted where needed
Ohhhhh, TIL. Thanks
alternatively...
Wikileaks was centralized because they would not publish anything that would imminently damage the goals they were attempting to achieve. There was just enough beurcracy to ensure leaks that were attacking allies were silenced and leaks exposing targets were amplified.
Do you have anything to support that claim? Julian was very persecuted for someone protecting allies
Julian was a scapegoat that outlived his usefulness and was tossed to the wolves.
important to point out that the rape allegations against him were dropped quietly after the 2016 election due to the "statute of limitations" being triggered. he served his time and was officially released in 2024.
every major release from wikileaks attacked the US state in some way, albeit deservedly. though, it's odd that no other major world government was attacked as thoroughly as the US was.
it's clear that the US is in the state it's currently in, due in-part to the leaks published by wikileaks.
so ask yourself, of all the other countries that participated in the Afghanistan war. the ones we now know committed war crimes against the people there. Canada, Russia, Israel, Australia, Great Britain. out of them, who lost the ability to govern itself the most other than the US? Who continued to govern itself with impunity?
wikileaks was a weaponized intelligence operation that was supposed to target the US, specifically the citizens. it was supposed to sow the seeds of discontent, and it only took a short decade to show positive results. it set the stage for Trump to become president through brainwashing the American population with the simple honest truth, "you cannot trust your government".
not saying this makes what the US did in Afghanistan "ok", though the outrage that followed was a bit misdirected due to the machinations of "worldly powers".
That sounds very conspiratorial, wikileaks didn't create the leaks, the leaks were sent to them. If US intelligence operatives and military staff sent in files, why did Russian operatives and military staff have to to the same extent too?
Better yet, distributed. It's called bittorrent.
Kinda could just use Lemmy / Piefed like that already if it's text or images.
For documents we'd need a new feature
Hmmm, great idea!