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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
My understanding from the initial story that Mick posted was that some confidential British Government documents were illegally obtained by Russian interests and uploaded to the Redditt site, thereby placing them in the public domain. Journalists and opposition parties were then able to avail themselves of the information.
This is slightly different from your suggestion of posting an opinion.
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Documents are leaked all the time. Any misrepresentation of the contents was purely down to Labour and the media, which allowed them to get away with it. I remember an instance a long time go(pre 1997), where a civil service report on options on a subject was leaked. Labour and the media jumped on it, claiming it was Government plans, when at that point nobody in Government had seen it, and if they had, it was just options, not intentions. It turned out that one of the people involved in the report was somebody who was a Labour party candidate.
The central problem isn't so much leaking of documents, but the misrepresentation of the contents.