Posting Wikileaks info on social media could ruin job prospects

Career services at Columbia University sent an email out this week warning students to refrain from posting links or comments to any of the recent Wikileak documents on Facebook or Twitter because it could ruin their job prospects in the future. Although leaked, the documents are still considered classified and any online comment or posts about the documents could damage the chances of jobs for those wanting to work in the state/federal sector.

Interesting. If I don't link to the documents, but a CNN article, am I ruining my chances of one day working for the state department after law school? Can I give an opinion about the organization? Is this post going to ruin me?

WikiLeaks, part II

Doug wrote an earlier post about Wikileaks, so I'm here for some recent updates that happened in the last several days, and some important implications the leak of these documents on journalism today. The Columbia Journalism Review has a great rundown of some news outlets' coverage of the documents.

Here's the break down of what has happened since the release of more than 250,000 confidential U.S. State Department documents last week:

• It's been has been hit with denial-of-service notices, and kicked off the servers in the U.S. and France
• On Friday, U.S.-based Paypal cut off Wikileak's account, a major source of income
• Amazon has cut Wikileaks off its server service, it has now hired a Switzerland-based company to host its site
• As a result of this censorship, WL has been using its Twitter account to request followers to start "mirror sites"
• WL's founder Julian Assange is now wanted by the Swedish government on allegations of sex crimes, including rape