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We have ushered in another new year with numbers of resolutions, plans and programmes for the coming 361 days. Nonetheless many may have tightened their securities to prevent a dangerous “leakage”…….leakage of significant informations to the largest talked over media channel, the ‘WikiLeaks’. When this not-for profit media organization came under lime light recently by exposing the secret US embassy cables ( See Secret US embassy Cables, retrieved from http://213.251.145.96/cablegate.html on 04.01.11), the world witnessed a huge wave of concern over the question of “data privacy” and “free speech” rights. WikiLeaks promised to release these Cables ‘in stages’, which may add more embarrassment to the concerned government/s as well as those who had taken active parts in these communications.
See how the internet is being used to expose corruption, secret conspiracies and probably executable plans for violence against mankind. But note that this particular organization gives a message: “messengers are not to be killed”. They are also concerned that the ‘spies’ may be protected from possible atrocious reaction from the person/agency once these secret informations are submitted and then published. Unlike the newspaper censorship, cyber-page can not be censored abruptly unless it is proved that this website is not following due diligence; further, ‘Free Speech’ must be viewed as the most sacred gift of modern democracy. But nonetheless, WikiLeaks had been attacked to prevent the leakage of secret cables. The biggest legal jolt against WikiLeaks were perhaps the criticisms which described the operations of Wikileaks as against national security ("Congress Mulls How to Stop WikiLeaks in Its Tracks". Associated Press. Fox News. 7 April 2010. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/12/16/congress-mulls-stop-wikileaks-tracks/. Retrieved 17 December 2010. Also see WikiLeaks. (2011, January 3). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 13:56, January 4, 2011, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WikiLeaks&oldid=405722954.) The website was also hacked and suspended for apparently cementing the leaking point. But it was a fruitless effort. The website was back on the web soon and restarted functioning.
I remember a brain storming session at my alma-matter, NLSIU with my guide and two other senior faculties. The session was about protection for the ‘whistle-blowers’ and the seniors were of the view that Kautilya’s Artha Sashtra’s dictum about protection of spies by the King, needs to be re-established with more stronger laws. The question which ‘bugs’ me is, when the whistle blower alerts the people against the law-makers, who will dare to break the law?...................... Not to forget, ‘Rule of law’ theory made the supreme lawmaker also to follow the law and not break it.
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