1) Wikileaks was blocked by some countries due to concerns about releasing confidential government information but then unblocked as other countries wanted access. 2) There are criticisms that Wikileaks allows anonymous posting of information that could be false or misleading and affect politics. 3) Some argue Wikileaks should not publish certain confidential government documents that were not meant for public release.

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After a few months of blocking the site, some
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countries decided to unblock it, so others that
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wants to access the site may do as they please. By Christine Yeung, Mana Sakamoto, Marco Chan,
Faults Of Wikileaks (Slide 3) : Ambrose Li (Group 3)
The reason why it was blocked because of the
United States public opinions. Many think that Notes
On Wikileaks there are some negative issues about
wikileaks is doing more harm than good by allowing this online news source. This news source lets Why We Chose This As Our Research
enemies of the United States government to see anyone one to anonymously to post or edit Topic:
confidential information about U.S. foreign policy. information that could be false. There are many
population in the world that uses this website to We chose Wikileaks to be research our research
This may occur to many different countries and topic because this website is on the news and is
know what is going on around the world. Therefore,
cities' confidential information. abused of publishing and releasing confidential
the editing and posting may pass rumors, misleading
That could lead to much trouble if someone decides information and thoughts of being against someone, information of many countries and now is under
to use those confidential information to harm something or somewhere. This may also affect government care. He is guarded and isolated from his
others or threaten others. politics or countries from the false information and work and family to be under inspection. This website
may confuse many people. is public and is abused of having highly confidential
Other countries like Germany took public opinions inappropriate information to the public. This is quite
too, many believes that some documents that Allowing people to edit and post on an online an interesting topic due to it’s linking to many global
belongs to the governments should not be released/ news source that holds lots of data may be very issues just created by a website.
published to the public. dangerous. People may hack the information Introduction Of What Wikileaks(Slide 2) :
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Wikileaks is created by Julian Assange, he’s a
websites. It is very easy for many hackers to
Recent News Of Wikileaks And Julian journalist, computer programmer, a hacker and
take confidential data from an online database.
Assange (Slide 5) : internet activist. He is currently the editor in chief
Source: and spokes person for Wikileaks. He was born in
Summary Of Video Queensland, Australia but created Wikileaks as an
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks international organization based in Sweden.
This is a news video that tells us about the creator
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abused of releasing and publishing confidential an online news source. It updates global affairs to
information to the public. Also for posting the Wikileaks Blocked? (Slide 4) :
the public (political issues around the world).
information without permission from the politics or In previous times Wikileaks was once blocked by
governments. This website is used by many population around the
many countries' like Australia, Thailand, United
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the capacity of the server is full. Therefore, creates a
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