Currently, there is a worldwide phenomenon called Wikileaks. Wikileaks is a website that posts classified documents of governments all over the world. A news article stated that the staff from the American Air force is not allowed any more to visit websites that show the posted document of Wikileaks, nor are they allowed to visit websites where they can sent documents too. The United States of America has been seriously embarrassed by the posted documents of Wikileaks. They want to prevent further leaking of staff to the website which could embarrass them even more. Of course, leaking classified information is a criminal offense and should be punished. However, the censorship on sites that show the documents of Wikileaks can be discussed. Is it even legal to do this? I do not know about the legal part or what is in the law about this. However, from another point of view, I believe that censorship by a government, no matter what kind of website it might be, should be prohibited. Journalists should be able to post anything of which they think its news. Although some information might be harmful to the United States and publication of those documents could even danger human lives, it is not the fault of journalist. Staff and employees of governmental organisations should be denied to access these types of documents to prevent leaking.
Many people are in favour of the publication of classified documents from Wikileaks. They are opposing to this censorship and to his arrest because they believe that the United States government is fantasising criminal offenses that the owner of Wikileaks might have committed. I do not know about this, it would be too much of a guess. However, these people are joining each other through a network called Anonymous. This organisation with members from all over the world are hacking websites that have something to do with the limitation of actions of Julian Assange (the owner). For example, the website of Paypal has been hacked and even the one of the Justice Department in Sweden. With these type of actions, proponents are showing sympathy with Wikileaks and they want governments to do something about the leaking, but not by limiting the free expression of journalists.
