As a longtime proponent of free information (hell, I founded an alternative to TV Tropes because it’s then founder spat on that very idea), I like the idea of Wikileaks, think they serve a valuable service as a muckraker.

But the SSN/credit card numbers they leaked along with the DNC emails in recent day was a dick move of the highest order.

For one, it serve no legitimate goal, the other content in the emails is more than damning. Second, it really does serve no legitimate goal, it’s a crime to release that information without lawful consent and only via proper channels. And finally, I can’t condone that for a personal reason that I believe needs to be said:

I have no love for the Democrats politically, consider Hillary a backstabbing opportunist who, much like Alexander Hamilton said of Aaron Burr, an embryo Caesar who is unfit to exercise authority from the White House, and have publicly supported Donald Trump, and despite otherwise enjoying watching the DNC with its pants down, I still find it a breach of ethics to put people at risk for fraud and impersonation in the process of exposing their misdeeds.

Without the SSN/credit card information, I can respect their actions in exposing corruption, but in not redacting information that will only hurt people with no legitimate service to the public in doing so (quite the opposite in fact), I deplore their actions as a breach of justice and cannot condone harming the privacy and financial welfare of anyone to that extent.

The information they released on the DNC corruption is indeed valuable, and I’m grateful, but in not redacting information that was simply meant to injure people for no other reason than apparent spite, I cannot stand by their actions, and I consider that an abhorrent breach of ethics.