Extraordinary, indispensable stuff. Never forget, in this historical moment, for our generation, the work of democratization, of equity-in-diversity, of consensualization (and, yes, sustainability too), depends on the connection of access-to-knowledge politics to democratizing peer-to-peer formations:
a2k + p2p = Civitas
In true Chomskyian fashion, Wikileaks was almost completely under
ReplyDeletethe radar in this country, apart from occasional bemused reports
of the Swiss bank lawsuit and their tussle with the Scientologists,
until they dared to threaten U.S. national security interests
(so-called) by publishing that helicopter-massacre video and
then the Afghanistan documents, upon which they instantly became
front-page news and a target of opprobrium for the likes of
Bill O'Reilly and Fox News.
Whatever the details of this or that secret document that turns
up on Wikileaks, my interest in them hinges on whether they
will manage to continue to exist in the face of the obvious
interest of the U.S. government (as well as various private
interests) in shutting them down (and making a strong example
of it).
If they **cannot** be shut down, even by the "men in black"
and the various three-letter agencies of the world (let alone
by the lawyers and the corrupt judges), then that will in
itself be a bitter slap in the face for Corrupt Authority
(or Legitimate Authority, however you look at it -- I've
heard some fierce discussion around the dinner table on
the subject of the morality of what Wikileaks represents,
particularly since its embarrassment of the U.S. government).