Wikileaks May Have Saved Tunisia from Political Disaster

The Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions was encouraged by what WikiLeaks was exposing. For a revolution to happen this means this website is very powerful. Its has also released videos of police officers beating Rodney Kings an african american. This was a racist crime these officer committed and they thought they were above the law and this video would not get out. This issue became national and the officer that committed this crime were sentenced to prison. There was a 3.8 million law suite King made from this video that was released to the press. Technology is taking over almost everything we do. Banks have access to all of our private information. Our social security numbers are on file and banks can track on how much we spend and where. If a hacker was to release this type of information to the public, civilians lives would be ruined. The way technology is evolving and social media all our privacy is being exposed. A Philosopher named Jeremy Bentham proposed the Panopticon, which is a building that is circular with a watch tower in the middle. This was a design for prisons. There is not enough guards to spot every cell in the prison. The thought of the guards could be possibly looking at you creates power over the inmates. This idea could also be beneficial with schools and the ill. This could help teach student morals and develop and improve efficiency in a workplace. Not

Gladwell sends a very strong message about how social media cannot cause a major revolution in society; likewise, Baron is sending across the same message. Revolutions continue even after the internet is shut down. As crowds gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, Baron describes how they “continued to grow during the five days that the Mubarak government shut down the internet” (330). The crowds increased in size without the help of social media. Somehow, word got out and people came to support the cause. Also, Baron brings into realization that Americans are too involved in the world of social media. Americans fail to realize all of the news that they are missing because they “can’t seem to survive without the constant stimulus of digital multitasking” (Baron 330). American citizens are too busy tweeting about what they ate for breakfast to worry about the hungry that is going on overseas. They depend on social networking to tell them the news rather that picking up a newspaper and reading about what is going on in their country or maybe even overseas in a different country.

The Internet is one of the most widespread ways to exchange data, and a website called WikiLeaks has received a great amount of attention from the knowledge it releases. The details they give are known to be confidential and provide society with an inside view on what is really happening behind of the closed doors of the federal government. The site is based on the “belief that a more transparent government will bring better consequences for all, and that leaking information has an inherent tendency toward greater justice” (Singer 465). WikiLeaks gives its readers a way to honestly know all the significant facts and records that are purposefully kept away from

Finally, another example of what happens when one makes information exchange free. Back to the internet, Wikileaks, an example of free information exchange. It publishes secret information, media leaks, and classified media, all from anonymous sources. This helps keep things which should not be a secret, free and open to all. In example, the Clinton Email Leak scandal, which rocked the United States, and

Almost a year ago, Egypt broke into civil unrest when protesters flooded Tahrir Square, demanding the end of Hosnia Mubarak’s regime. Although Mubarak stepped down within two weeks, Egypt is worse off today than it was last January. The Supreme Council of Armed Forces (SCAF), which played a vital role in the January revolution, has now become a violent and oppressive force. On the twenty-ninth of December 2011, the SCAF raided seventeen Egyptian, German, and US run NGOs in search of proof of illegal foreign funding.1 In a statement (A/HRC/18/NGO/77) submitted by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR), and the Center for Egyptian Women’s

It is through protest that the government is able to recognize what the people believe. Without this there would be no changes, no reconsideration, and no progress.

INTRO The Darkening Web: The War for Cyberspace by Alexander Klimburg is a novel that is written around the importance as well as the relevance of the internet in today’s society regarding state safety. The claim Klimburg makes throughout the novel is that no invention at all has changed the way we live, as much as it has been changed by the creation of the Internet. Many would consider the Internet to be the greatest invention to happen to mankind, considering how easily accessible it is and how much information it holds. However, Klimburg’s novel explores the idea of cyberspace in regard to politics.

The ever growing number of subversive groups use these type of incidents to influence public opinion to further their objectives. It is working for them.

In America, protest has been used throughout history as a vehicle to change. Protests bring attention to issues that would or could be overlooked or ignored. A current protest receiving national attention in our media is the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protest. The Occupy Wall Street protest, along with other Occupy branch protests are essentially ineffective protests. When compared to successful protests in the past, they are not having as much success gaining public support. There are many reasons this could be the case. There is no clearly defined goal or a specified outcome resulting from the protests. They are managing their funds inefficiently and in many cities they are creating more problems than they are solving.

377). Moreover, Assange’s determination to “help whistleblowers that would expose wrongdoings of government and private enterprises” (Gunnell, 2011, p. 32 ) is believed has transformed the ideas of global communication process.

Over the course of history, protests have changed the world. Protests are meant to allow people to express their beliefs, ideas, and to let them get their points across on a certain topic they may have a conflict with. They involve groups of people, which can start off as a small group, but then it can grow because they allow people to speak freely on a subject and so more people want to be heard. A protest can be on anything, some examples include protests on age, gender, race, religion, animal rights, or LGBT rights. People do deserve the right to freely protest in their countries, because they are trying to make a change in their lifestyles and stand up for what they believe in, but there are limits to how they can reform their lives and the lives of others. Protests should not involve violence or dangerous acts that can harm citizens or protesters themselves. Citizens should protest peacefully if they can manage to show respect and maturity.

Micah White is an active member of the occupy wall street movements and gives motivational speeches on the matter. The structure of blocking streets, posting outside of buildings and the violence that occurs during some of these protest are not helping the cause. America is such a big country that these protest do not make difference because they happen with such a minuscule amount of people compared to the whole US population. In other countries for example Egypt the ousting of President Hosni Mubarak was an influential movement which succeeded in making change in their government. Occupy Mubarak was an occupy movement which was able to work because the country is much smaller. Egypt has a smaller country than the whole united states so millions of people protesting there would make a large impact. This protest also lacked a strong structure and the violence that occurred from pro-Mubarak supporters cause a divide between the citizens. In White's book The End of Protest: A New Playbook For Revolution he quoted Edward Snowden who said “Occupy Wall Street had such limits because the local authorities were able to enforce, basically in our imaginations, an image of what proper civil disobedience is, one that is simply ineffective”(Preface, 2). The local authorities set

A revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests (both violent and non-violent), riots, and civil wars in the Arab World that began on 18 December 2010, later gained the heading “The Arab spring”. The Arab spring began by a twenty six year old boy named Mohammed Bouazizi was getting ready to sell fruits and vegetables in a rural town of Sidi Bouzid Tunisia. Bouazizi was the primary supporter for his widowed mother and six of his siblings. The entire incident originated when the police officer asked bouazizi to hand over his wooden cart, he refused the police women allegedly slapped him after being publicly humiliated bouazizi marched in front of a government building and set himself on fire. The Jasmine revolution in Tunisia, the shock wave swept across the country which threatened the stability of this oil-rich region with repercussion felt internationally. After the world witnessed what happened in Tunisia, it caused a spilled over into most of the Arab countries. Such as Egypt, Libya Syria and Yemen. Aim of this paper is to show that the current situation corollary of decades of failed policies, exacerbated by an unsolicited foreign intervention. The extensive consequences, I will argue, require cautious attention and careful management from international communities as well as the Arab human rights committee. This paper seeks to explore the profound causes that prompted the so called “Arab awakening” and the covert hidden agenda behind the sudden pro democratic

Founded by Julian Assange, in 2006, WikiLeaks is a non-profit, online, journalistic organization that reveals confidential documents and governmental secrets and leaks. Wiki Leaks is struggling against secrecy, and against a world that is trying to shut it down. It has released documents about US military operationsin Iraq and Afghanistan, unreported civilian causalitiesembarrassing Obama’s administration’s diplomatic actions, and many other documents. Although Wiki Leaks may be considered a threat to our social security system, it remains immensely valuable to the society and shouldn’t be banned since it is credible and it promotes democracy.

“This is what democracy looks like” is one of the most impactful phrases to speak at a protest. A free society looks like the ability to disobey, to criticize the government, and to petition. Without the ability to peacefully resist, there is no true democratic representation. This is one of the most politically charged times in history, with several protests a month and real success. Peaceful resistance to laws positively impacts a free society because it’s what helps make a society free in the first place.