The Effects Of Julian Assange

Submitted By littlestarkey
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Violence is defined by the Columbian dictionary as actions or words that are indented to hurt people, or extreme force. However some of today's greatest political figures fight there battles not out in the trenches but behind the safe plastic monitors of a computer. Julian Assange is one of the most infamous names of today's generation. As a sixteen year old he hacked into the master terminal for Nortell, raising more than thirty charges for computer hacking. But it was in 2007 when Assange rocked the nation by launching the site wikileaks, realising classified U.S material on the Gutanamo detention centre. Assange may have been one of the first to be lured into realising classified material, but he was certainly not the last. For six years later Edward Snowden rocked the U.S by releasing information about the NSA'S spying program on the American people. Both these men have stated their reasons for releasing classified military information to the media, they both found material produced by the government that they found invasive and disturbing. They also made the decision that the people needed to know about what was occurring behind the firewall. They say that our enemies are no longer known to us, they are not nations, they don't fight for a flag. They don't fight with weapons, they fight with a keyboard and mouse. They don't announce war until it's right on top of us. However they fail to mention what happens when the people who we trust to look our for our best interests betray that trust and use it against us, use it to censor us, to monitor and control us. Is it really that horrible that men would take matters into their own hands to enlighten us