Regarding WikiLeaks, I have been active both on Twitter, Facebook and blogs voicing my support. All citizens have a natural right to know everything their elected officials and their policy making employees are doing on their behalf. (res publica). Anyone who seeks to stand in the way of this right is an enemy of democracy, and a supporter of an authoritarian state.
It scares me that my belief in freedom of information, right to privacy and free speech is such a threat to your system that you feel the need of prosecution. And as disturbing these news are, it's even more disturbing knowing that most other online fora most likely would comply, unlike Twitter. It's what we don't know that's the really frightening scenario. I have a democratic right to openly support Wikileaks, and you have an obligation to serve the public trust.
And failing terribly.
Another case another crime perpetrated by crimminal enterprise calling itself the department of justice.The united states government has been slowly taken over by fascists who hide under false symbols and the false claims of national security-larry_larrant
ReplyDeleteThis is, IMHO, yet an other reason why we need to transition from services run by big companies (who you can easily subpoena for the information on thousands of people at once) to distributed services that everyone can run on their own servers (like StatusNet instead of Twitter, Diaspora/Appleseed/Friendika/++ instead of Facebook, etc.)
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