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10 February 2013
WikiLeaks Reveals Aaron Swartz May Have Been A Source: Wise Move?
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WikiLeaks currently finds itself in a difficult position. Funds are trickling in because of a questionable financial blockade against it ...
11 November 2012
Bulgarian Banks Try To Silence Web Site That Called Them 'Bad Apples'
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Whatever your views on the value of Wikileaks, one of its useful side-effects has been the appearance of other sites that have tried to ...
02 February 2012
Estonia Next In Line To Receive US 'Encouragement' To Adopt Harsher Anti-Piracy Laws
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Numerous Wikileaks cables have highlighted the pressure that the US has brought to bear on several foreign governments behind closed doors...
05 September 2011
The Great Copyright Conspiracy Laid Bare
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My last post might have seemed slightly over the top - and indeed was meant to be. After all, it's not as if the US really wants to sub...
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03 May 2011
Why Did Wikileaks Fail New Zealand?
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As I noted elsewhere, we now know that the US played a major role in pushing for tougher copyright regimes in Canada, Spain and Sweden. It...
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18 January 2011
In defence of hackers and open source
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One of the reasons that I regard the rise of WikiLeaks as such a key event is that it is throwing an interesting light on so many areas – ma...
23 December 2010
The Final Acts of ACTA
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Although the current excitement over the gradual release of the Wikileaks documents is justified in that it concerns what is undoubtedly an ...
22 December 2010
Jaron Lanier's Virtual Reality
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There is now a well-established class of writers about the digital world whom I fondly dub the Old Curmudgeons. Basically, they agree, thin...
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21 December 2010
Lessons from WikiLeaks: Decentralise, Decentralise, Decentralise
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Whether or not Wikileaks turns out to be a watershed in politics, there's another question of more immediate interest to the open source...
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06 December 2010
Things Fall Apart; the Centre Cannot Hold
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One of the many fascinating aspects of the Wikileaks #cablegate saga is that, unusually, computer technology plays a central rather than per...
02 December 2010
The Limits to Openness
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Unless you live in certain countries or read certain newspapers, you will have been deluged over the last few days with “revelations” from t...
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29 November 2010
Wikileaks: the Web Watches and Waits
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It's clearly still far too early to attempt to assess the impact of Wikileaks' latest mega-leak, this time of US secret cables, whic...
31 May 2010
Transparency is in WikiLeaks' DNA
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It is somewhat ironic that the man behind WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, is not a fan of being in the spotlight; and therefore perhaps poetic ju...
15 December 2009
Australia Edges Us Towards the Digital Dark Ages
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Last week, on my opendotdotdot blog, I was praising the Australian government for its moves to open up its data. I was rapidly – and rightly...
11 December 2009
Mandelson's Power to Censor the Net
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I and many others have already noted that the proposed Digital Economy Bill gives far too many sweeping powers to the government. According...
13 April 2009
Why, Actually, Are They Hiding ACTA?
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One of the curious aspects of articles and posts about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is that it's all a kind of journal...
03 March 2009
How to Save Investigative Journalism
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There's increasing hand wringing over the fact that revenues at dead-tree newspapers are diving, leading to redundancies, and loss of th...
30 December 2008
Extreme Openness: the Rise of Wikileaks
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There is a long journalistic tradition of looking back at the end of the year over the major events of the preceding 12 months - one that I ...
25 November 2008
Wikileaks Tells It as It is
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From a Wikileaks press release (not online as far as I can tell): Wikileaks spokesman Jay Lim stated "The UK is increasingly viewed as...
16 September 2008
We Have Nothing to Fear...
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...but fear itself : Americans' fear of a terrorism could create a mass outbreak of a psychosomatic illness -- even in absence of any re...
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