[LINK] Government and Corporate reaction to wikileaks
Kim Holburn
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Wed Jul 28 09:40:52 AEST 2010
An interesting interview with Xeni Jardin of Boing Boing on the future
of improvised reporting devices like wikileaks and how governments and
corporation might react.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/vp/38421616#38421616
> The incident marks the same kind of historic turning point in power
> distribution as when the music industry flipped out over Napster in
> the '90s, and the movie industry flipped out over BitTorrent in the
> early '00s. This moment feels like the same kind of apple-cart-
> upset, but for information control by military and political powers
> which, before this moment, we perceived as "in control." (It's no
> accident that the copyright maximalists and secrecy maximalists are
> often in agreement regarding internet restrictions and issues like
> net neutrality— and I'd expect to see new laws and controls soon
> proposed in that regard).
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