Julian Assange, Wikileaks and the great power interests

The Wikileaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange. Of course I also must say about this guy that
he’s controversial. But let me ask the question, why?

He haven’t done anything bad (except the sexual crimes why he’s on the Interpol’s wanted
list, but who believes this? Please.) He just have shared what nobody else feared to share. The
truth about governments, Iraq war, etc. .
Julian Assange is truly an extraordinary aussie. In the age of 16 he began hacking with two
fellows. Then later he wrote down the early rules of the subculture:

“Don’t damage computer systems you break into (including crashing them); don’t change the
information in those systems (except for altering logs to cover your tracks); and share
information”

The answer came from the police in form of an arrest, in 1991. He always was an innovator, a
revolutionary. Since 1994 Assange functioned as a programmer and developer of free
software. He always wanted to share his knowledge. This is what with the Wikileaks goes on.
He just want to share what people have to know. When on 28, November is started to
publicate these 250,000 diplomatic cables was the largest unauthorized release of
contemporary classified information in history. Of course the U.S. government “loved” this.
The Wikileaks is obviously revolutionary. But it can be like that in two aspects. At first the
most common is about information sharing, losing privacy. Social networks are the vanisher
of privacy but in a slower way. When facebook reached the magical 500-million user mark
then comes a page like Wikileaks and influences everything. Everything what we tought
about the United States government, war and of course about privacy. When we look at the
most succesful and revolutionary sites than we reach all of them are “working” on that people
should lose their privacy. But this dazzling site shows an another dimension of open society. I
call it the absolute open society. And yes if the world will continue on this way, it’ll result in a
– seen from these days – strange society. Let’s imagine it. Everything is open, everybody
knows everything, there aren’t business and political secrets, but what about personal
secrecy? Who will deal with every human on the globe? Yes, I think the answer is everybody
will take care of one. Because the context is very important. If we’ll live in a society where
everything is open then people will accomodate to it. With sharing their personal information
and things considered before as secrets more directly and easily. Yes, I think that’s
Mr.Assange’s vision too.

“The aim of Wikileaks is to achieve just reform around the world and do it through the
mechanism of transparency.” Julian Assange

“What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.” Julian Assange

As we can see in the first quotation Assange vision is something like absolute open society or
absolute freedom of speech. But the second. Think it over. In history when was the censorship
on it’s top? In dictatorships like Stalin’s communist regime in the 1940s and ’50s or in the
Nazi empire. Always when the leaders feared the people, so they had to censure them.
Nowadays there is a conventional censorship too. Conventional censorship? Yes, that should
be. But maybe it isn’t just that, maybe there are facts what people are should know. Then
what? Of course a revolution like in the other way. But completely another revolution.
Society remains the same, only the governments and persons who have to have secrecy will
develop something what provide them the wanted discretion. Should be a network? Just
remember how the internet – this tool what extremely shapes our lives – started. Army wanted
to have a safe network. What’s that network now with the appearance of Wikileaks?
Definitely unsafe! Then what succeed from it? Of course! There is going to evolve a new
exceedingly safe network. Maybe it’ll have an other interface than computers. But in this
networks first several decades will be secret for the public opinion. Then somebody joins that
network, somebody who isn’t that safe what that network demands. Slowly it’ll begin to
spread et cetera. Just look up in wikipedia the history of internet.

Yes, this guy with a definitely strange hair is a revolutionary. But maybe he’s unaware of his
role in the development of the mankind. He definitely have done something amazing what in
this age we can’t handle. But only the future will tell if there will evolve an absolute open
society or a completely new but extremely influental network.

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