Information freedom – Whom can
you really trust?
I’m going
to talk about Anonymous which are an associated network of hackers. They are a
movement that stands for freedom of speech and disagree with a lot of decisions
by the government. They don’t want them to hide important information that can
easily change people’s minds about certain things. I do agree with a lot of
things Anonymous stand for myself. The government shouldn’t hide such vital
information and lie to the public in my opinion. We should know certain things the
government tries to hide. Just for an example when a video was leaked from
Wikileaks of an American helicopter shooting and killing civilians in Iraq. I
think it’s disgraceful that the American government was trying to hide that
information about the war and lie to everyone. I think a lot of newspapers and
even TV and some parts of the Internet lie to us as well.
Wikileaks
is a website that posts secret information. Wikileaks leaked documents from
Kaupthing Bank just before the collapse of Iceland’s banking sector, which
caused financial crisis for Iceland. The document showed that large sums of
money were loaned to various owners of the bank, and the debts were written
off. People were right to know about that because the people put their money in
that bank and deserved to know what was really going on. Well it wouldn’t feel
that great to log on to your bank account and see that there’s no money in my
account at all.
Operation
payback was basically an attack on the US goverment and also on bank websites who
had canceled all facilities from Wikileaks. So what they did was that they used
DDoS attacks which can make webpages unavailable.
In
countries like Egypt and North Korea a lot of parts of the Internet are
censored. In my opinion that’s wrong because I think everybody should be able
to get information from the Internet if they want to. When a country censors
such things as free internet, you kind off understand that they are afraid to
show something. Surely there are things on the internet that probably should be
censored, but at the same time I think some countries censor information that’s
really important for the people to get access to and get to know about which is
completely wrong, and cowardly by the country to do in my opinion.
