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Shutting Wikileaks is almost pointless now
A clear sign that Wikileaks is feared and will remain so. If Wikileaks is shut down, rest assured rivals will land and take its place. The genie is well and truly out of the bottle: The Obama administration has asked Britain, Germany, Australia, and other allies to consider criminal charges against Julian Assange for his…
How much money does Wikileaks need to thrive?
Interesting insights into the running of Wikileaks: WikiLeaks aims to collect 460,000 Euros per annum. That would be enough for the five staffers and some of the approximately 900 volunteer helpers to recover some of their costs in the future. Up to this point, not even Assange receives a salary. He lives off his savings,…
Not telling us how the web content arrives
Looks like we’ll have to fight for a truly free internet: So Google and Verizon went public today with their “policy framework” — better known as the pact to end the Internet as we know it. News of this deal broke this week, sparking a public outcry that’s seen hundreds of thousands of Internet users…
ElectionWire interview on Australian election
Election Wire is an online youth portal covering the Australian election campaign (here’s their recent report about detention centres). Journalist Austin G. Mackell yesterday interviewed me about the issues in the country, including foreign affairs, the Greens, the web filter, Wikileaks and the Middle East:
Al-Jazeera on Wikileaks Afghan story
The Wikileaks Afghan logs release has caused outrage, consternation and celebration across the world. Al-Jazeera’s media show, The Listening Post, this week discussed the significance of the story and the future of online journalism. They asked me to briefly comment on the tale (starts at 8.40):
Google and CIA work together
Just what the world needs: The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to…
YouTube generation gives the finger to the mullahs
Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall” reframed as a defiant call of support for those backing democratic change in Iran. Tehran’s authoritarianism is being noticed:
Wikileaks releases the new Pentagon Papers?
The Wikileaks story about leaked documents over the Afghan war is racing across the world. Some analysis and further news is here, here, here and here. Releasing sensitive information in the age of the web is a marvel of new technology. Here the New York Times explains its reasoning behind publication. The job of journalists…
Wikileaks blows open the Afghan disaster
The power of the internet to prick the most powerful government in the world, its corrupt war, its shameful allies (including Australia) and blow wide open the nature of the Afghan engagement: A huge cache of secret US military files today provides a devastating portrait of the failing war in Afghanistan, revealing how coalition forces…