Like wikipedia, they are a nonprofit. Only, instead of collecting the mass knowledge of humans, wikileaks seeks to expose corrupt businesses and governments.
I, unfortunately, am broke. However, I will do what I can, and spread the word around.
“ … serves as an uncensorable and untraceable depository for the truth, able to publish documents that the courts may prevent newspapers and broadcasters from being able to touch. ”
— In praise of… Wikileaks – The Guardian, October 20, 2009
I’m sure there are many in goverments and businesses around the world that would love to see this website shuttered because they expose ugly truths that otherwise would not see the light of day. They’ve been involved in some pretty heavy-duty shit.
A copy of Standard Operating Procedures for Camp Delta – the protocol of the U.S. Army at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp – dated March 2003 was released on the Wikileaks website on 7 November 2007.[42] The document, named “gitmo-sop.pdf”, is also mirrored at The Guardian.[43] Its release revealed some of the restrictions placed over detainees at the camp, including the designation of some prisoners as off-limits to the International Committee of the Red Cross, something that the U.S. military had in the past repeatedly denied.[44] emphasis mine
So, they exposed a lie the US goverment told. They have faced legal challenge after legal challenge, and one of their spokepeople’s houses was raided in Germany. They are considered very dangerous. Knowledge, after all, is power. And power is dangerous to those who jealously hoard their own power over others.
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