Former WikiLeakers launch Openleaks, the next-generation of leaking
Unlike Wikileaks, Openleaks will be a “conduit” of information rather than a publisher of information. Openleaks will simply exist to pass information along. It’ll be up to other organizations, like NGOs and “other interested entities”, not to mention traditional news outlets, to vet everything.
OpenLeaks was created by the former deputy to Assange. Daniel Domscheit-Berg said the intention was to be more transparent than WikiLeaks as "In these last months, the organisation has not been open any more. It lost its open-source promise." It planned to start in early 2011. [Wikipedia]
Openleaks has its own Twitter account, openleaksorg, which has gained almost 2,000 followers. It says that its priorities are "technical infrastructure, neutrality and a strong relationship with journalists... Whistleblowers can send without risk."
"We felt that Wikileaks was developing in the wrong direction," Domscheit-Berg told BBC News. "There's too much concentration of power in one organisation; too much responsibility; too many bottlenecks; too many resource constraints." But he didn't want his team to have to decide what is relevant for publication; that would be up to news organisations.