[Noisebridge-discuss] Jacob Applebaum detained upon arriving in U.S.

[Sai Emrys]

FWIW on the morality-of-exposing-informants bit:

AFAICT this argument only makes sense in the context of taking sides
(e.g. pro-America, thereby pro-America's-informants).

Conversely, what are valuable and innocent "informants" to Americans
are despicable and dangerous "traitors" to Afghani Taliban... and
exposing them becomes a good thing.

However, IIRC Wikileaks has a commitment *not* to take either side,
which means it also is outside valuations based on who on what side
might die as a result of its publications (vs. something based on,
say, total number of deaths in the world). It's mostly an amoral,
gray-hat organization AFAICT.

Really thinking through the moral implications of abandoning all
tribal affinities (e.g. to America, in this case) is interesting. One
side's war of independence is the other's rebellion... but I'm not
sure what a neutral view is.

- Sai