D.M.A
Bob King
Text Composition
Josh Barker
The first thing we will have to do is take a look at what sociology is and how it relates to Wikileaks. I will start by defining sociology. Sociology is the study of development, structure, and functioning of human society. Now the best definition of Wikileaks I could find. Wikileaks was a website that published anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive governmental, corporate, organizational, or religious documents, while attempting to preserve the anonymity and untraceability of its contributors. Join me as we look into the sociology of Wikileaks.
In 2006 the website Wikileaks was launched under The Sunshine Press organisation and claimed a database of more than 1.2 million documents within a year of its laucnh.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks) Since then that number has grown ten fold. In April 2010, the site published gunsight footage from the 12 July 2007 Baghdad air strike in which Iraqi civilians and journalists were killed by an Apache helicopter, as the Collateral Murder video. Also 76,900 documents about the war War in Afghanistan were released in July of the same year.
The argument of the United States is, several U.S. government officials have criticized Wikileaks for exposing classified information and claimed that the leaks harm national security and compromise international diplomacy. When the reference was made to national security you could assume that they were talking about the sociology of a nation. Some believe that these leaks have hindered the progress of our country if not the whole world. Other’s say that this type of thing is necessary in order to put an end to terrorism and world violence. In my opinion I believe that these leaks will always have an effect on our sociology until the end of time. I’m not here to say who is right or wrong but, by look at the response of the leaks the government knows that they did something wrong and the person or person’s who let the information get out presumably be wrong as well. In order to move on we will need to except Wikileaks for what it is and not put our selves in a position to be the next leak or do something to stop it permanently .
Bob King
Text Composition
Josh Barker
The first thing we will have to do is take a look at what sociology is and how it relates to Wikileaks. I will start by defining sociology. Sociology is the study of development, structure, and functioning of human society. Now the best definition of Wikileaks I could find. Wikileaks was a website that published anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive governmental, corporate, organizational, or religious documents, while attempting to preserve the anonymity and untraceability of its contributors. Join me as we look into the sociology of Wikileaks.
In 2006 the website Wikileaks was launched under The Sunshine Press organisation and claimed a database of more than 1.2 million documents within a year of its laucnh.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks) Since then that number has grown ten fold. In April 2010, the site published gunsight footage from the 12 July 2007 Baghdad air strike in which Iraqi civilians and journalists were killed by an Apache helicopter, as the Collateral Murder video. Also 76,900 documents about the war War in Afghanistan were released in July of the same year.
The argument of the United States is, several U.S. government officials have criticized Wikileaks for exposing classified information and claimed that the leaks harm national security and compromise international diplomacy. When the reference was made to national security you could assume that they were talking about the sociology of a nation. Some believe that these leaks have hindered the progress of our country if not the whole world. Other’s say that this type of thing is necessary in order to put an end to terrorism and world violence. In my opinion I believe that these leaks will always have an effect on our sociology until the end of time. I’m not here to say who is right or wrong but, by look at the response of the leaks the government knows that they did something wrong and the person or person’s who let the information get out presumably be wrong as well. In order to move on we will need to except Wikileaks for what it is and not put our selves in a position to be the next leak or do something to stop it permanently .
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