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> From: orb
> Date: 2010/12/06 10:16:54  ET
> Subject: 'Wikileaks and the Global Geography of Cyberwarfare '
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> Wikileaks and the Global Geography of Cyberwarfare
> Gaston Gordillo
>
>    Following a trend accelerated by 9/11, the language of  
> "terrorism" is now being used to demonize any type of democratic  
> activism on the web. The US government is increasingly sounding like  
> the Chinese government in this regard, a worrisome move. And the  
> struggle over Wikileaks also involves the attempts by various states  
> to capture an elusive body moving in space, that of Julian Assange.
>
>    This is why the cyber-confrontations currently involving  
> Wikileaks are so important for those of us who believe in a  
> democracy not ruled by unaccountable corporate and state power. And  
> it is equally important to keep in mind that this cyberwarfare is an  
> extremely dynamic, mobile, horizontal process over the control of  
> space. A reminder, in other words, that what we call "globalization"  
> or "cyber-activism" involves not only flows of information moving  
> across the world at dizzying speed but also the actual control of  
> mundane spaces: such as computers sitting on a desk somewhere in  
> Iceland, Finland, or Holland.
>
>    The struggle for a global democrary, therefore, should include  
> demanding our respective national governments that it is imperative  
> to protect these spaces from state attempts to crush free access to  
> information that concerns us all.
>
> the rest of the story:
>
> <http://spaceandpolitics.blogspot.com/2010/12/wikileaks-and-global-geography-of.html 
> >
>
>                             /---------------\
> to acknowledge a fake as fake contributes only to the triumph of  
> accountants.
>  Werner Herzog
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