# It’s important to note that Wikileaks itself doesn’t choose what information
to grab & host; in…

Does the wikileaks administration reject some submissions? Probably — after
all, there are plenty of people who, given a place that will…

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It’s important to note that Wikileaks itself doesn’t choose what information
to grab & host; in terms of editorial control, it sits somewhere between
pastebin & the New York Times: it mostly receives unsolicited leaks, and it
will spend extra effort cleaning up & making accessible things that have wide
appeal, but will more or less host anything. Looking at the raw list of leaks
makes this clear: there are a lot of items along the lines of the membership
list of Condoleeza Rice’s sorority (which is fairly uninteresting).

Does the wikileaks administration reject some submissions? Probably — after
all, there are plenty of people who, given a place that will host anything,
will use it to pirate hollywood movies & child porn. But, if somebody offers
wikileaks an email dump, whether or not they will host it is not even a
question: of course they will host it, because that’s what they see as their
mission.

By [John Ohno](https://medium.com/@enkiv2) on [August 3,
2016](https://medium.com/p/97192ef94da3).

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wikileaks-itself-doesn-t-choose-what-information-to-grab-host-in-97192ef94da3)

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