[LINK] How wikileaks was an inevitable result of the internet

[Tom Koltai]

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> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of David Boxall
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> That begs the question: what happens if Wikileaks goes? If the US 
> succeeds in killing the messenger, my feeling is that they 
> will regret 
> it deeply.
>
"The Man" has not yet learnt that pushback begets pushback.

Escalation of egos has always been the commencement stages of any
warlike conflict.

Politicians come and go in four year windows.
The [perceived] problems of the Internet are hear to stay for a long
time.

Therefore by necessity, corporatism has taken over the long term reigns
of "Internet Control".

Regretably politicians are all too willing to listen to these large
political donation machines, therefore, when the proverbial smears
itself all over the fan, who ya gunna blame?

Frank states that he prefers the word of Bloggers to the media. 
I don't think Frank is alone. What is scary and should be of concern to
politicians, is that persons like Frank (and I) are not spring chickens.

If the majority of the population, (the baby boomers) no longer trust
the corporations, and;
the baby boomers kids take their lead fromtheir parents, and;
the Politicians follow the Corporate lead, 
then QED, the majority of the population no longer trust their
politicians.

I think Julia, Tony and any other "professional" politician needs to
immediately ignore Wikileaks, ACTA and various other anti-consumer
American Dogmatisms and concentrate on winning back the hearts and minds
of the electorate.

Believe it or not Canberra guys, as far as the US is concerned we are a
small customer for military arsenal and a single vote in the U.N.

There are bigger customers for weapons and those countries get more
diplomatic recognition than us.
You were elected by the vote of the people.

How bout working for them instead of Corporate America?