txt: Live with the WikiLeakable world or shut down the net. It's your choice - John Naughton, guardian.co.uk
The most obvious lesson is that it represents the first really sustained confrontation between the established order and the culture of the internet. There have been skirmishes before, but this is the real thing. And as the backlash unfolds – first with deniable attacks on internet service providers hosting WikiLeaks, later with companies like Amazon and eBay and PayPal suddenly "discovering" that their terms and conditions preclude them from offering services to WikiLeaks, and then with the US government attempting to intimidate Columbia students posting updates about WikiLeaks on Facebook – the intolerance of the old order is emerging from the rosy mist in which it has hitherto been obscured. The response has been vicious, co-ordinated and potentially comprehensive, and it contains hard lessons for everyone who cares about democracy and about the future of the net.
links:
- How Wikileaks has woken up journalism - Emily Bell, Tow Center Columbia University
- Il potere digitale - Stefano Rodotà, repubblica.it
- Why WikiLeaks Is Good for America - Evan Hansen, Editor-in-Chief of Wired.com
