Snowden And WikiLeaks Go To War...
Snowden And WikiLeaks Go To War Over The Ethics Of The DNC Email Hack
July 29, 2016
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Last week, the DNC saw thousands of emails leaked. It led to angry Bernie supporters protesting at the convention and accusations that Russia was attempting to influence the US elections using WikiLeaks as a catspaw. Now another leaker, Edward Snowden, has taken on WikiLeaks on Twitter, and it opens the door to looking at the ethics of leaking.
When To Leak And What To Leak?
Snowden, famous for working with journalists to unveil the NSA’s domestic surveillance program, took to Twitter to, however gently, criticize WikiLeaks. In response, Wikileaks did not take it well:
Democratizing information has never been more vital, and @Wikileaks has helped. But their hostility to even modest curation is a mistake.
you a pardon from Clinton & curation is not censorship of ruling party cash flows en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_c…
Snowden’s criticism likely stung because, after the sound and fury surrounding the emails, the results were less than impressive. Aside from a spitballing email about whether Bernie should be asked about his faith, which was quickly shot down elsewhere in the email chain, most of it is, at best, personally embarrassing instead of politically scandalous. What little scandal there was fell on the head of the already embattled Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, the unpopular chair of the Democratic Party. Otherwise, we’ve learned that Ariana Grande lost out on a White House gig for licking donuts and that DNC officials make up sillly Craigslist ads about their opponents.
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