tangent4ronpaul
12-13-2010, 10:05 AM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11981301
Wikileaks' former second-in-command is gearing up to launch an alternative to the high-profile website.
Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who left the site after disagreements with its founder, plans to launch Openleaks in the coming months.
The technology, which can be embedded in any organisation's sites, will allow whistle-blowers to anonymously leak data to publishers of their choice.
Its founders say it will address problems they had with Wikileaks.
"We felt that Wikileaks was developing in the wrong direction," Mr Domscheit-Berg told BBC News. "There's too much concentration of power in one organisation; too much responsibility; too many bottlenecks; too many resource constraints."
He said that the team did not want the responsibility of deciding what was or was not relevant and what would be good for the organisation as a whole to publish.
"This is the wrong question and should never be asked."
Network effect
Unlike Wikileaks, Openleaks will not publish or verify material; leaving that role to newspapers, "NGOs, labour unions and other interested entities".
"We are trying to build a community of various organisations that need or have use for anonymously submitted information," former Wikileaks member Herbert Snorrason told the BBC.
Mr Domscheit-Berg, said the decision to be a "conduit" rather than publisher was made because of the team's experience at Wikileaks.
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The result, he said, would be "technically and legally very powerful".
[...]
"One of the main issues we see with Wikileaks today is that it has become too much about the project," said Mr Domscheit-Berg, who said he still supports Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
"It has become too much about self-promoting the project and self-promoting people involved with the project which is rather distracting from the content of the documents."
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The article talks about the rifts in Wikileaks and the new model.
Two points: Assange's primary defense is that he *IS* a publisher. This new approach seems downright suicidal for an organization.
Secondly, about it beeing too much about Wikileaks - They have had to shut down in the past because of a lack of funding. Now many ppl are donating and I bet a lot of ppl are submitting material. The downside is that the story has become about Wikileaks and there is much less emphasis on what's being leaked.
-t
Wikileaks' former second-in-command is gearing up to launch an alternative to the high-profile website.
Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who left the site after disagreements with its founder, plans to launch Openleaks in the coming months.
The technology, which can be embedded in any organisation's sites, will allow whistle-blowers to anonymously leak data to publishers of their choice.
Its founders say it will address problems they had with Wikileaks.
"We felt that Wikileaks was developing in the wrong direction," Mr Domscheit-Berg told BBC News. "There's too much concentration of power in one organisation; too much responsibility; too many bottlenecks; too many resource constraints."
He said that the team did not want the responsibility of deciding what was or was not relevant and what would be good for the organisation as a whole to publish.
"This is the wrong question and should never be asked."
Network effect
Unlike Wikileaks, Openleaks will not publish or verify material; leaving that role to newspapers, "NGOs, labour unions and other interested entities".
"We are trying to build a community of various organisations that need or have use for anonymously submitted information," former Wikileaks member Herbert Snorrason told the BBC.
Mr Domscheit-Berg, said the decision to be a "conduit" rather than publisher was made because of the team's experience at Wikileaks.
[...]
The result, he said, would be "technically and legally very powerful".
[...]
"One of the main issues we see with Wikileaks today is that it has become too much about the project," said Mr Domscheit-Berg, who said he still supports Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
"It has become too much about self-promoting the project and self-promoting people involved with the project which is rather distracting from the content of the documents."
=========
The article talks about the rifts in Wikileaks and the new model.
Two points: Assange's primary defense is that he *IS* a publisher. This new approach seems downright suicidal for an organization.
Secondly, about it beeing too much about Wikileaks - They have had to shut down in the past because of a lack of funding. Now many ppl are donating and I bet a lot of ppl are submitting material. The downside is that the story has become about Wikileaks and there is much less emphasis on what's being leaked.
-t