I’ve become something of a fan of Bad Idea magazine, which promotes the work of young journalists. It’s a sight more lively than most of the dreary material pumped out by the mainstream press as it stumbles lazily into oblivion. People younger than me will have to invent new ways of doing this thing if any of us are going to survive. One approach is the investigative site Wikileaks, which has been responsible for publishing a stream of documents no one else has dared touch.
So a Bad Idea article about Wikileaks was something I has to read, especially with the headline: Wikileaks – Protector Of Civil Liberties, Or Utterly Misguided?
The article reports the case of Theodor Reppe, the owner of the Wikileaks server, whose home was raided by German police. Bad Idea speculates whether the raid might be connected to the posting on Wikileaks of a blacklist of sites banned by the Australian authorities, including, bizarrely a dentist’s office and a kennels.
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