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World Wide Mobbing

Everything is said about Wikileaks (and one face behind it). We know now: they are the incarnation of Evil - or the saviour of free speech. No shades of gray. The debate is pure hysteria - on both sides. Imagine a second platform for whistleblowers popping up. That platform, let's call it TheNakedTruth (TNT), co-publishes wikileaks data. It gets tremendous media-attention as it then goes on to reveal a treasure trove of classified cables on international business-connections that some anonymous insider compiled - with rich personal detail on well-known business leaders, evidence for dark paths into government... and documents demonstrating the manipulation of the western free press by shadowy interest groups with ties to rogue states in the east. Just imagine! Some would be shocked, others less surprised by the revelations. But what a discovery! What a public service! A victory for free speach, a glimmer of hope for democracy! Let there be a thousand Wikileaks! All becomes s