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One Step Away From China

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The government has now warned government employees to not look at the wikileaks site on either work or personal computers.

On one hand I get it, the data is still classified even though it has leaked. At the same time this is a slippery slope. I bet soon enough we will have a something close to the Chinese situation that American's so often criticize.
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  1. tinypliny ·

    The wiki on wikileaks is a fascinating read :::link:::

    The way wikileaks is being treated is clearly a demonstration of how people in power (not only in the US but across the world) will react if their corruption and lies are exposed. Why we continue to elect these liars to power is a mystery. A completely aboveboard government is a myth nowadays.

    People who want to bring in some responsibility and accountability for these scummy political actions get shot down ruthlessly through various coercive channels. For eg. do you think Amazon and Paypal withdrew support to wikileaks because they were opposed to the content? I don't think so. They probably were rushing to protect their own interests from the greedy fangs of political pressure in the future.

    The freedom of information act in itself is a lie. Everyone is already a "China" but are hypocritical enough that they can't admit it.

  2. tinypliny ·

    Wikileaks is offline anyway. No one is gutsy enough (or big enough to have resources) to host their content. They probably will need to set up their own servers - in which case, who knows... they might be a denial-of-service attack on them by the henchmen of the political scum they are exposing.

  3. jbeatty ·

    Maybe the people high up in the government should worry more about who they give access to sensitive information than about prosecuting the messenger. Between this and the TSA the Obama administration is really starting to piss me off. I suppose it proves to me it really doesn't matter who I vote for.

  4. tinypliny ·

    The Chinese government is not without its merits though: :::link:::

  5. paul ·

    Wikileaks is up. You just need to visit it by IP addr as their domain names were revoked. If you search for it on google you can find the ip. Maybe google will be forced to censor them too. That would be truly insane.

  6. tinypliny ·

    Oh, they are up at :::link:::

    For all the talk about how the government is not controlling the internet, all those denial of service attacks against wikileaks points otherwise. Why would independent hackers be against wikileaks content? Seems more likely that the government is employing skilled hackers to sabotage wikileaks.

  7. uncutsaniflush ·

    Personally, I'd like to think the nation that put men on the moon could do better than a denial of service attack on Wikileaks.

    But, as always I could be wrong.

    Unfortunately, I think that all governments tend to act the same when facing threats real or imagined. It's what happens afterwards that highlights the differences between the styles of government.

  8. tinypliny ·

    More wikileaks revelations related to China and Google: :::link:::

  9. tinypliny ·

    Interesting commentary on Assange: :::link:::

    " The WikiLeaks founder is an unscrupulous megalomaniac with a political agenda.
    By Christopher Hitchens"

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