WikiLeaks

 The government did investigations on the WikiLeaks because of the alleged damage they did to the U.S national security. There was information distributed that the government wanted to keep hidden and the WikiLeaks leaked the documents on their sites. Most governments try to put an end to WikiLeaks or block the source but have failed. WikiLeaks is a form of freedom of speech and democratization of knowledge but keeping that in mind the sources information could be made up or not credible to some degree. That's a con to the freedom of this information getting out to the public is that some people may read something about the government that isn't true and run with it. This could misguide the trust that people place in the government. I think it's reasonable for the government to try to protect certain information and keep it classified, but to go and try to destroy an organization who poses a threat to their security is something else. In the public, we have our data and information collected, so I don't mind having a source that takes data from the government to make it public.