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Insight: Mar 1

This week Insight looks at WikiLeaks and other whistle-blowing websites.

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This week there’s yet another story on WikiLeaks, this time on Insight.

But it moves beyond the site to look at other whistle-blowing websites and talks to several key players behind this growing movement.

In light of the WikiLeaks disclosures and the continuing investigations surrounding Julian Assange, host Jenny Brockie brings in guests from around the world to discuss the ideology and motives of those running such websites, ask where they draw the line on transparency, and explore the impact technology is having on secrecy.

International guests include Icelandic MP and former member of WikiLeaks Birgitta Jonsdottir, David Sanger of the New York Times, Clayton Swisher of the Al Jazeera Transparency Unit, and Evgeny Morozov, visiting scholar at Stanford University and author of The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom.

Also joining the program will be Daniel Domschiet-Berg – founder of OpenLeaks, former member of WikiLeaks and author of the book Inside WikiLeaks: My Time at the World’s Most Dangerous Website, released just last week.

Insight airs on SBS ONE every Tuesday at 7.30pm.

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  1. Will try and tune in to this episode. This is a very contentious issue and i must say that people have the right to know certain information, whether they choose to use it or not is their porogative. Its not for people to tell other people what they can and can’t read or watch, any way we have enough censorship in this country and around the world as it is. The authorities claim that its needed for security and keeping citizens safe but i dont know about that. In my opinion if certain comapanies, industries and public servants dont have anything to hide then there shouldn’t be a problem.

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