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Marshall Lumsden
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Wikileaks starts with CIA documents?
Andy Carvell at geek.com (http://www.geek.com/users/Andy%20Carvell/) reports that “[...] WikiLeaks has announced on Twitter that it will release a new document today [...]” (full article at http://www.geek.com/articles/news/wikileaks-prepares-to-leak-cia-document-20100825/).
I don’t really like to speak of this, but, I don’t also like the misuse of freedom of speech.
One thing is to release documents on companies doing bad things, another is to “burn” people working undercover or putting them in danger.
Freedom of speech is a right that should be used with some wiseness.
This post as a comment also at http://www.geek.com/articles/news/wikileaks-prepares-to-leak-cia-document-20100825/comment-page-1/#comment-3869117
Murdoch and pay per news
Ron Schenone at Lockergnome writes an article reporting that Mr. Murdoch is predicting (threating) that within next year no more free news will be available from his companies (full article at http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2009/08/06/murdoch-more-threats-to-charge-for-news/).
I agree that quality journalism is not cheap and that “all free” paradigm is not sustainable. Seems to me quite stupid the idea to made everything pay per use, because of crisis times, because of limited resources of families, because people spend a lot for cable and satellite tv.
But what makes me think a lot is the fact that this move is completely useless if not accompanied by a plan to enlarge the possible users basis.
Developing countries cannot afford to pay for every information and information is the basis of freedom and development.
And also without being “populistic” or democratic, on an economic point of view, the information market for developed countries can be considering quite saturated and so new users should be found in developing countries, but, of course, should be found something that is not on a pay basis.
And I’m confident too that Google will find an innovative way for delivering free quality informations.
Despite of Mr. Murdoch.
This post as a comment also at http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2009/08/06/murdoch-more-threats-to-charge-for-news/#comment-187916
If you know, speak. If you don’t know shut up.
What really is making me strange in this days, is that everyone feels entitled to speak on everything.
I have been taught that if you’re confident in something and you have an opinion, you can express it. But it’s not something good if you speak just for the pleasure of speaking.
Could be that in this days I’ve got a little bit more time to spend reading, but I hear everybody speaking on everything: on Opel and Magna, on World economy, on pensions, on stem cells,…..
Everybody has an opinion, but little have this opinion with knowledge of what are they speaking.
But the worst thing is that some people deserve some credibility to not so bright ideas and opinions.
I respect other opinions (also if they come without knowledge), but I don’t necessarily need to give them credit.
Freedom of speech is a gift we have sometimes, that deserves respect and doesn’t need to be abused.
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