You are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

EndThePizza ago

I hadn't thought about the hiring PI side of things. But I think it would be possible and very useful to have some kind of hybrid wikipedia - wikileaks organization. Have people submit info on scandals, peer review and verify, and officially post it once it's confirmed by many sources. Do everything possible to keep a trustworthy reputation. Imagine if we had the facts on every politician's scandals available on a single public platform, crowdsourced and therefore as un-biased as possible.

Remember, as nice as it would be to see people go to jail for their crimes, public opinion alone should be enough to keep the worst people out of office.

MAGAphobia ago

That's a good idea, and it could all be done pretty easily and on the cheap. This would be a good project for sure.

EndThePizza ago

It would also be good for people to anonymously report things that aren't immediately obvious to the public. Theres always inside lower-level people who know things that they'd like to spill, but wouldn't if they had to reveal their identity for the sake of job security or reputation.

We have to make this the defining moment of the information age. The moment when people realize that the collaborative power of the internet gives average citizens the chance to hold politicians accountable. We can't let this just be a single event, or it'll happen again. We have a new responsibility to always keep watch.

MAGAphobia ago

Well we'd need to create incentives, like cash rewards for information that leads to an arrest or something. Maybe buy footage taken from hidden cameras.. We want to document as much as we can.

I think the most important wing of the organization would the " hackers wing". Don't forget that people can hire hackers online as well.

EndThePizza ago

People don't need incentives to contribute to wikipedia, they just contribute to whatever they're interested in. Just like they are for Pizzagate.

MAGAphobia ago

Not to archive the information but to leak it they would.

I guess I thought you were saying something else.

EndThePizza ago

Well, Snowden and whoever leaked the Podesta emails did it without incentive, and at great risk. There's gotta be plenty of people with moderately important info that they want to leak, but don't know where to leak it to.