EDITORIAL: Wave goodbye to Internet freedom

Not without one hell of a fight, IMO. To read the article, click here.

"Ellsberg's release of the Pentagon Papers was a great democratic act that helped clarify for the American public how its leaders had misled it for years, to the immense detriment of the nation’s honor. By contrast, Wikileaks’s huge data dump, including the names of agents and recent diplomatic cables, is indiscriminate. Assange slashes and burns with impunity. He is a minister of chaos fighting for a world of total transparency. We have enough problems without that." Indiscriminate, one-sided and, given either his sloppiness or insidiousness (I don't know which characterization is closer to fact), ultimately (if only slightly, but positively) pro-authoritarian. (It could be Assange had watched "Hackers" and "Sneakers" one too many times and just hasn't thought things through.)" -- added by Jack Sarfatti