In a recent speech, Glenn Greenwald discussed how the government and media treatment of WikiLeaks reveals a total lack of respect for the law and government transparency.
Assange said the web could allow greater government transparency, but also gave authorities their best ever opportunity to monitor and catch dissidents.
WikiLeaks has faced non-stop attacks by government officials. Both internet and financial companies are cutting off services. Here's a round-up of efforts to suppress the site.
Greenwald: "What is really going on here is a war over control of the Internet, and whether or not the Internet can actually serve its ultimate purpose."
Joseph Palermo, Huffington Post. December 6, 2010.
WikiLeaks is exposing the desire of many mainstream journalists to stand up and be counted as the dutiful water-carriers for the prerogatives of United States foreign policy.
The site has already been forced to change its domain name and hop-scotch to servers around the globe as successive companies and countries bent to US pressure.
