[pp.int.general] French Minister calling to "put an end to Wikileaks hosting in France",

Richard Stallman rms at gnu.org
Fri Dec 3 22:13:02 CET 2010


There are two separate and important issues here:
is Wikileaks legal, and is it right.

If those who host Wikileaks are perceived as defending Wikileaks
through legal technicalities alone, people will call them "loopholes",
and there will be pressure for those "loopholes" to be closed.

We need to defend Wikileaks by saying it is heroic defense of human
rights, and argue that it _should_ be legal.  Thus, if it _is_ legal,
that is not a loophole, it is justice.

-- 
Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
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USA
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