Information Madness

WikiLeaks, the most Controversial and popular website is now a contender for the Nobel Peace Prize. The nomination which was a surprise to many was made by a Norwegian lawmaker. This lawmaker view the site as “one of the most important contributors to freedom of speech and transparency” in the present age.

 

Snorre Valen is a journalist, communications assistant, a musician and an elected member of Norwegian Parliament at a young age of 26 years. Valen is the Socialist Left Party’s member since 2009. The ruling left-leaning coalition has Socialist Left Party as one of its organisation. Valen posted a post on his blog on why he chooses to nominate Wikileaks. He also wrote about Liu Xiabao, a jailed Chinese dissident who got the Nobel Peace Prize 2010 for his work on democracy, human rights and freedom of speech.

Valen said “Likewise: Wikileaks have (sic) contributed to the struggle for those very values globally, by exposing (among many other things) corruption, war crimes and torture — sometimes even conducted by allies of Norway,”. The allies of Norway seem to indicate United States.

 

Valen also stated that WikiLeaks was instrumental in the Tunisia revolution as Wikileak had investigated all the financial arrangements of the presidential family and published everything on the site. The last date for the nomination for Nobel Peace prize 2011 was last Tuesday. There were more than thousand people were qualified to nominate parliament members and governments throughout the world and also previous Nobel laureates, professors in universities and workers of many international organisations.