The internet war is here and people around the world are taking sides - and taking prisoners.
ON THE SIDE OF ASSANGE:
The Australian foreign minister says the United States is to blame for the release of thousands of diplomatic cables on Wikileaks, not Julian Assange. Good for you mister Australian foreign minister guy. Way to call it like it is. It's reassuring to know that everyone in the world hasn't completely lost their minds and they can't all be muscled to agree with the American government.
In an interview with Reuters news agency, Kevin Rudd said: "Mr Assange is not himself responsible for the unauthorized release of 250,000 documents from the US diplomatic communications network. The Americans are responsible for that. The core responsibility, and therefore legal liability, goes to those individuals responsible for that initial unauthorized release." Wow, this guy actually makes sense.
Hey, Senator Lieberman, you should hang out with this Rudd guy. Maybe some of his good sense will brush off on you.
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange should get Nobel Peace Prize, says Russia. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev have pledged support for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and have gone as far as to suggest the beleaguered site's frontman be honored with a Nobel Peace Prize.
The Guardian quotes a Kremlin source as urging international non-governmental organizations to think seriously about "nominating Assange as a Nobel Prize laureate."
Julian Assange might deserve a Nobel Prize or at the least a Pulitzer Prize but I think Russia might want to reconsider giving that to a guy who might soon end up in prison - it didn't work well for the Chinese - they gave a Nobel Prize to an empty chair. "We're just gonna put the prize here in this empty chair and when the guy gets out of prison he can pick it up here." Good plan China.
ON THE SIDE OF FREE SPEECH:
Meanwhile, somewhere else in the world - the first internet soldier has been taken down in the line of duty and you'll be surprised to know HE'S ONLY 16 YEARS OLD. Dutch Police have arrested a 16-year-old boy on suspicion of involvement with the attacks of the MasterCard and Visa websites allegedly started by a group called Anonymous, who are sympathizers of WikiLeaks, reports the Wall Street Journal. See, I told you it was an INTERNET WAR.
Also, the amount of attacks online by Assange supporters are increasing. Attacks by pro-WikiLeaks activists are growing in strength as hackers add botnets and thousands of people download an open-source attack tool, security researchers said. Amazon, MasterCard, Visa, PayPal and the Swiss payment transaction firm PostFinance are just some of the companies that cut support for wikileaks and now are being targeted by these attacks. If you want to know more about how DDOS or Distributed Denial Of Service attacks work - then CLICK HERE for a great explanation.
ON THE SIDE OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT:
The American government has decided that if they can't take down Wikileaks with current American law then they'll just make new laws. The SHEILD act (Marvel comics fans should be laughing at this) would amend US Code Title 18 Section 798, which is identified as the Espionage Act, to provide legal protections that already apply to communications intelligence to human intelligence sources. THE GOAL, said the senators who sponsor it, is to protect the lives of confidential sources and their families.
(that's great - it actually says ESPIONAGE on the S.H.E.I.L.D. logo)
THE GOAL, is to destroy anything and anyone that might threaten the illustrious careers of these corrupt politicians that are pushing these laws. What are you hiding? Just exactly how many skeletons are we going to find before this thing is over?
A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad. ~Albert Camus
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