MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
By Adrian Chen, Gawker.com, May 12, 2011
....The Wikileaks' absurdly harsh "confidentiality agreement," (PDF) reads like something image-obsessed Oprah would make her underlings sign. It asserts that all material leaked to Wikileaks is "solely the property of Wikileaks" and prevents signatories from discussing "all newsworthy information relating to the workings of Wikileaks"—even the existence of the confidentiality agreement itself must be kept confidential. The agreement imposes a $20 million (£12 million) penalty if the contract is breached.
The document was leaked to the New Statesman by former Wikileaks volunteer James Ball. Writing in the Guardian, Ball describes a January meeting of a handful of young Wikileaks volunteers in England, during which Assange tried to make them all sign the document....
Comments
Key point by Ball in the Guardian:
by Donal on Fri, 05/13/2011 - 11:06am
good point to stress....your emphasis really got me thinking on organizations in general...
by artappraiser on Sat, 05/14/2011 - 3:38pm