Wikileaks supporters in the Ukraine symbolize their view of the US government. Governments are right to fear their people as the recent uprising in Tunisia proves. The uprising in Tunisia may also be traced to cables leaked to the public by Wikileaks further proving when people know what their governments are doing, they will take action.
The rapid growth and expansion of technology and the internet has outpaced governmental apparatus to control or seclude sovereign actions from their people.
In some ways WikiLeaks is a traditional investigative news operation. It gets its information from a source and the journalists decide what they will publish. It needs a platform, an audience and revenue just like any other newsroom. It can also be sued, censored or attacked. But because it is trying to operate online outside of normal national jurisdictions it is harder to hold to account. It can use mirror sites and multiple servers to avoid physical restraint.
It also disseminates data on such a vast scale and directly to the public so it is posting a different threat to those in authority used to being able to influence if not control the media. It is independent and not run for profit and the people who work for it are ideologically motivated. This all makes it much harder to clamp down.
Oxford University Internet analyst John Naughton says that what WikiLeaks is really exposing is the extent to which the western democratic system has been hollowed out. It is not that what it publishes will endanger lives or make government impossible. It is that it forces power out into the open. That is why those in power are attacking it. WikiLeaks worries them because it protects its sources and gives the evidence directly and in great detail and scale to the citizen.
Unfortunately, rather than try to operate more openly and in such a way that does not incite revolutions, the US is trying to come up with laws and regulations to enable it to continue business as usual, including lying to Americans about what their government is doing.
Establishment media are also having a difficult time adapting to the new model of journalism evolving out of the whistle blower to Wikileaks to media outlet via the internet. Below is a debate held at the Frontline Club in London.
Chaired by Richard Gizbert, presenter of The Listening Post on Al Jazeera English.
David Aaronovitch, writer, broadcaster, commentator and regular columnist for The Times;
Mark Stephens, media lawyer with Finers Stephens Innocent and Julian Assange’s solicitor;
Ian Katz, deputy editor of the Guardian;
Gavin MacFayden, director of the Centre for Investigative Journalism.
Who’s Julian Assange? – Here is an extract of the forth coming book Trapped in a Masonic World: We have to do everything legally within our powers to prevent this same “network of people” from being able to introduce some form of Chinese “Google clamp” to our systems here in the West. Our job is to help inform our fellow man, – those billions of others who are still kept in the dark, and with our collective assistance, they too shall soon be bathed in the light of truth and knowledge, – and I would like to take this opportunity in thanking Julian Assange for having to balls and conviction for doing what he has done, and continues to do, – we must look out for him and his kind, and be by he’s side when he needs our protection, because after all, – who really is Juilan Assange? – Well the answer is obvious, he is you, me and every single one of us; “…I’m Julian Assange!” – We shall all rise and claim back our planet from these predatory evil bastards, our slave masters whom have deliberately kept us in continuous never ending wars, famines, illnesses, diseases and poverty, keeping the majority of us treading water in order just to survive and pay our extortionate bills and the cost of living, all their talk about eradicating poverty, has been proven by themselves as utter bullshit. – Their time is up, the games coming to an end, and there’s never been a better time to be alive knowing we can do something about the reclamation of our world from a relative small number of elite bloodline families and their present misled foot soldiers, it’s happened before and shall again. – There’s over 6.6 billion of us, and as a collective we can do it, it can be done, should be done, and more importantly needs to be done, and that’s the true meaning of 2012, and perhaps what the Mayan calendar is indicating too, the end of the old world, and the coming of the new one, – a world of the enlightened ones, though without the help of the illuminati! And here’s the catch, as even though I am putting down the Freemasons, illuminati and religious camps in general, I am not funnily enough totally against them, as I know for certain there are millions of members of these sorts of organisations who are genuinely honest and sincere human beings. My only bug bear, is their secrecy, the elitism and those presently in charge and control are not using their wealth power and influence for the empowerment of mankind, but to the detriment of it instead, and it is these individuals who have to be exposed for what they truly represent, and given the opportunity to either alter their ways, step down and retire, or be disposed off. We are at the start of a worldwide revolution and it is our task to lay the path for the sake of our children, and their children’s children. – Viva -Revolution, – and orf wid dare eds! Many political leaders throughout history have always sought to mislead the thinking of the masses. The ancient Greek philosopher Socrates taught his students; that the pursuit of truth can only begin once they start to question and analyse every belief that they ever held dear. If a certain belief passes the tests of evidence, deduction and logic, it should be kept. If it doesn’t, the belief should not only be discarded, but the thinker must also then question why he was led to believe the erroneous information in the first place. – Not surprisingly, this type of teaching didn’t bode well with the ruling elite of Greece, and Socrates was tried for subversion and for corrupting the youth, in which he was found guilty, – then forced to take his own life by drinking poison!
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