Wikileaks.

By Sylvia Godoi

In my opinion I think that the creation of the WikiLeaks website is a revelation that has left the world shocked by the content of their publications, which express the abuses that  have been committed by large countries, such as the United States, on other smaller countries, and other series of criminal acts that have been committed by major figures in political and social history of the world, who have even claimed the lives of thousands of people, or, as Julian Assange (founder of Wikileaks page)has said, millions of lives over the years. Seems to be ironic that criminalize these acts and say that Mr. Julian Assange has endangered the lives of those involved in these acts, because in my opinion this argument is very weak, if is contrasted with the effects that these countries have caused.

From this I think that the world needs WikiLeaks, if people want to live in countries where democracy is something pure and not only the speeches and initially good intentions, because people need to know the truth about events that have not been disclosed transparently, which in my opinion also hurts people's rights and dignity to not be deceived by public figures, whom believes that are representing us, wanting the best for us. Well, now the downside of these publications is that people tend to think that these acts of corruption or abuses of power are widespread, causing panic and disappointment among the population, however this is due to the same governments who do not transparent their actions, generating distrust in the general opinion, further compounding the error of governments, as all these facts were revealed at once, so the people know some terrible news and unable to forget, or assimilate them , take knowledge of others more, so the effect tends to be accumulated  and, in a final point, cause all this efects.

The WikiLeaks revelations undoubtedly affected the relations between countries, and are generating mistrust, because this revelation transposed physical, social and cultural boundaries, even being heard by people in other countries, generating a global effect. This point, in my point of view, is the most important feature of the web side, because of the impact that a simple publication can cause.

On another topic, this type of publications has caused the imprisonment of the people who published them, an that clearly is a threat to all those who want to disclose these facts of injustice, governments also, knowing that this is part of freedom expression, is trying to act outside of law criminalizing people if they talk the truth. I think this attack is a government strategy to silence the truth, destroying freedom of expression in all its forms and this is not justifiable.

In my opinion, governments have tended to think that their wishes are more important than the wishes of the people they claim to represent and have forgotten an undeniable truth, that is these same people, who they are trying to manipulate and deceive with false promises and hidden acts, who should be represented, heard and obeyed by governments, which were elected by them.