The Secrets about the Website that Reveal Secrets…

    One of my friends has told me that it seemed like everyone was fascinated about gossip, and I think that is definitely true. Actually, people are especially curious about the “gossip” of the mysterious person and the government. Now, people can satisfy their curiosity to some degree by having a look at the secret government documents thanks to a website established by an Australian man in 2006 which aims at bringing the government of countries all over the world to light. That man is Julian Assange and the website is wikileaks. Thousands of people view wikileaks as an excellent website because it gives the common people a chance to learn more about the mysterious and serious government. However, because of curiosity, I have some questions about this new type of website, and I want to know the secrets about this secret-reveal website.

                                                  

     My first question is about one interesting phenomenon I found on wikileaks. When I looking at the wikileaks, I think that the truth it talks about different governments seems has different focuses. For example, many of its reports about China focuses on China’s censorship over the internet, while the articles about Japan talk a lot about ACTA and there are more articles about 9/11 and Iraq war in the category of United States. Maybe it is hard for one website alone to find out all the secrets that the public want to know or may be the authors are more interested in those topics. But I am still curious that whether it is that wikileaks has its own preferences or it has chosen some topics on purpose. I want someone to tell me the secrets about the wikileaks’ topics.

    What comes from my first question is my second question—should we believe all that the wikileaks says, or is it really telling the truth? Since I come from China, I know that the public cannot get connect to some foreign websites and some software are unavailable in china neither. But I am still wondering why wiki leaks focusing on making a list of the Chinese government state TV censorship. And “Green Dam”, the name of content-control software for Windows appears a lot in the articles under China category. I don’t think it is wikileaks‘priority to analyze the technology the green dam uses. By looking at the “popular China related articles”, I find that there are 5 titles mention about “censorship” among the total 12 titles. After reading the list the wikileaks made about the information that is forbidden on TV state, I found that they mainly centering on the Falun Gong meditation movement, Tibet, and some political leaders. Although I understand why the Chinese government forbids these topics in China, (because some of them are not totally true and may cause a spread of murmur among the Chinese citizens), there are still many a people don’t understand the reason why the Chinese government doesn’t give freedom to these messages. Therefore, I think wikileaks should try to find out the reason why some keywords, some messages are forbidden on the internet or TV in China, rather than just make a list of some words. If wikileaks aims at unmarking the lies in this duplicitous and complicated world, it should dig deep enough to find out the truth instead of looking at the surface. I cannot keep myself from wondering whether wikileaks really wants to find out the truth or it just wants to make some bad impression about some countries.

     It is true that wikileaks does open a door for the common people to learn more about their government and it does have some effect on urging the government to behave well and do their work more efficiently. I also agree that wikileaks does give me a lot of information that I didn’t know before and I do think it is a useful and valuable tool to some degree. It is just that I think we should view everything objectively and think more about them and have our own thoughts about everything.