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Heather Brooke


American
1970
Journalist
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I'm a freedom of information campaigner, so obviously I support the cause of Wikileaks.


Heather Brooke
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My parents are British but they emigrated to America, where I was born.


Heather Brooke
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Democracy isn't just for people in the Middle East, but Britons, too.


Heather Brooke
Tags: People Just Too
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Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks.


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The movement towards radical transparency and accountability has been gaining steam for several decades.
Heather Brooke
The biggest abuses in society happen when people are not able to communicate and not able to connect.
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Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.


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Tags: Legal Same Times
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I know people don't like America very much, but the one thing it's very good on is local government.


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If you really believe in a cause, let the cause speak for itself. And if you, by your personality, are damaging that cause, if you really believe in it, you step aside.
Heather Brooke
Tags: You Really Your
You can't hope for a better result as a campaigner than to have the prime minister announce a major policy change within 48 hours of your documentary.
Heather Brooke
Tags: Change Hope You
Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing or politics. But it's not the end. In many ways, it is just the beginning.
Heather Brooke
If you don't think there is any value in the work I, or any other serious journalists do, then don't spend your money on it. At least you have the choice.
Heather Brooke
Tags: Work Money You
The speed with which WikiLeaks went from niche interest to global prominence was a real-time example of the revolutionizing power of the digital age in which information can spread instantly across the globe through networked individuals.
Heather Brooke
Tags: Power Age Which
Newspapers are not free and they never have been. They can appear to be so, but someone, somewhere is covering the costs whether that is through advertising, a patron's largesse or a license fee. Advertising is no longer subsidising the industry and so the cost must fall somewhere - why not on the people who use it?
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Say what you will about Americans, but one thing they are not is passive. The Bush administration may have pushed through the Patriot Act weeks after 11 September, but, as the American public got to grips with how the law was affecting their individual rights, their protests grew loud and angry.
Heather Brooke
Tags: You About Will