The Pros And Cons Of Wikileaks

Today we live in a world where not one thing gets unnoticed or unseen. We share our daily experiences on social media; from our morning breakfast to our late night party, or Netflix show. Everything is available for people around the world can see a glimpse of our lifestyle. It is solely in our hands on what and how much information we share with the virtual world. Similar is the case with democratic governments. Democracy can be simply defined as the government of the people, for the people, and by the people. But, sometimes the government leaps ahead of the law and breaks the law to achieve certain heights and accomplish their tasks. The laws broken by the government have its records, but not for the public. So, organizations like WikiLeaks comes to play to reveal the dark secrets of various governmental or multinational companies’ acts related to corruption, brutal violence, and different illegal acts to make a transparent relationship between the people and government. But, even if it can be advantageous for the society, the effects on the people who are said to be involved by supplying the leaked documents to …show more content…
WikiLeaks has a strong structure, which makes it safe for them to come forward and post the documents. So, to protect its sources Assange explains the structure of WikiLeaks in his books, When Google Met WikiLeaks, that “On the technical front, our first prototype was engineered for a very adverse situation where publishing would be extremely difficult and our only effective defense would be anonymity, where sourcing would be difficult (as it still currently is for the national security sector), and where internally we had a very small and completely trusted team” (69). WikiLeaks follows a strict prototype of anonymity which is safe and secure for the