Do Americans really have the freedom of speech? If we truly have freedom of speech, should the website WikiLeaks be dubbed a terrorist group for making information accessible to the public? Recently PayPal has canceled WikiLeaks account due to the fact that the "service cannot be used for any activities that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity." I personally do not feel that WikiLeaks is doing anything illegal and they should continue to reveal information to the public as long as no lives are put in danger. I am not the only one that feels this way, when I raised the question whether WikiLeaks was either a terrorist organization or defender of freedom information, majority thought it was a defender of freedom.
If the government has nothing to hide then what is the big deal? Yet again WikiLeaks is leaking information that is not benefiting certain corporations and no one can mess with commerce it seems like. WikiLeaks seems to be growing all around the world and with all its mirror websites, I do not think it is possible for the government to completely shut down the website. WikiLeaks is revealing documents and articles that compromise what we should and should not know about our world, if you ask me they are doing all of us favor and informing us of what is truly going on. In a way WikiLeaks is making the world transparent for all of us to see!
Some government officials are trying to censor what we can say and with whom we share this information with. It is clear however, that with the wide range of technology, a website can play hopscotch and keep its business running. Technology in this case is both a pro and con, because it is helping to distribute information on a world wide scale.
(http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20024649-38.html?tag=mncol;8n)
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