Talking about WikiLeaks' cablegate can hinder job placements

Talking about WikiLeaks' cablegate can hinder job placements

www.thetechherald.com

If you are thinking about working for the government, but have recently used social media platforms to link to or discuss WikiLeaks’ cablegate materials, you can likely kiss that potential career path goodbye.

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Wow really i am amazed. I just posted up a post about U.S. Military in Iraq Tries to Intimidate Soldiers Into Not Reading Wikileaks. I thought that was bad. Well theres more these may be common knowledge to Americans it is not to your Uk counterparts.
So if any of you here want a job with the USA government you better not post! (unless you work for the government already ofc as a disinfo agent)
So freedom of speech it seems is not a god given right to western nations but something that should not be taking for granted. I mean if this was in china.. np i expect that from there....

happy days

kx



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Well, as Bill Hicks once shouted:

YOU ARE FREE TO DO AS WE TELL YOU, GO BACK TO BED, AMERICANS, YOUR GOVERNMENT HAS ALL FIGURED OUT, GO BACK TO BED, AMERICANS.

It's very clear that Wikileaks has something important and revolutionary to say.

We should treat it with GREAT suspicion that there is a media smear campaign on Wikileaks and the leader Julian Assange.

I see continued threads where people try to make this guy out to be some sort of terrorist. I hate it with every fibre of my being as much as i hate religion.

Originally posted by purplemer


Wow really i am amazed.

You shouldn't be. It is perfectly rational and justifiable for the government (or any other organization) to refuse to hire someone who is supportive of leaking confidential information to the public. Trust is important.

reply to post by Lilitu


I agree that for a stable civlisation there must be trust. It has to work both ways; for that, the goverment must be transparent.

Secrecy is the poison. It's clear the govermental figures with self-interested motives are secret for the wrong reasons; it's not "national security" - it's because of there damned corruption.

reply to post by Lilitu


Yes maye you have a point i never thought of it that way before..

kx

In amerika you have the right to free speach.. But you better not use it.. Be good little citizens big brother is watching.. Guess I can forget about applying for the job with homeland security to monitor porn sites.. Oh that was social networking sites.. Nevermind..

Originally posted by awake_and_aware
reply to post by Lilitu

 

I agree that for a stable civlisation there must be trust. It has to work both ways; for that, the goverment must be transparent.

Secrecy is the poison. It's clear the govermental figures with self-interested motives are secret for the wrong reasons; it's not "national security" - it's because of there damned corruption.

edit on 4/12/10 by awake_and_aware because: (no reason given)

Thats a good point too, trust is paramount and it need to work both ways. There in lies the problem...

kx