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Blue3
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« on: August 23, 2016, 10:11:32 PM »
« edited: August 23, 2016, 10:20:26 PM by Blue3 »

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/08/23/wikileaks-outs-gay-people-in-saudi-arabia-in-reckless-mass-data-dump/


That's despicable. Outing gay men in Saudi Arabia. What can possibly go wrong? Oh, I know: they can be legally executed for being gay!
 
And it gets even worse than that
It also makes public the identity of domestic workers who had been tortured or sexually abused by their employers – even listing people’s passport numbers, alongside their full names.
One of the cables includes private details of a Saudi man detained for ‘sexual deviation’ – the charge for homosexuality – raising fears of reprisals or ‘vigilante’ attacks.
A disabled woman whose private debt information was released in the data
 
Like, really? Why release this? If you're going to go after Saudi Arabia, go after their most corrupt government officials, release what the royals spend their billions on. Not private citizen data like this. They need to do better than these random mega info-dumps.
 
Calling this anarchism is an insult to anarchists. It's just harm, at random.






LOL, WikiLeaks official response on Twitter is:

"US big media scramble to side with presumptive winner #Clinton. We expect many more recycled attacks like AP's today as our leaks continue."


They're nearly a parody now.

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« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2016, 09:15:50 PM »
« Edited: August 24, 2016, 09:18:31 PM by Blue3 »

Aye, and you should be proud.  You are one of very few lefties here (Patrick and Oakvale too) that didn't like him 4 years ago.
Neither did I, or a lot of us.

The rape accusations coming immediately after the cables leaked seemed suspicious, but overall I didn't think we even really learned anything from that first big leak. Just confirmation of what informed people knew for years.
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