I hope you are correct. On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Julio Huato <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't think they can put the genie back in the bottle. Even if they > kill Assange (not unlikely) and shut down his web site, the example > has been set and there will be many more wikileaks type of outlets. > Technology keeps lowering the "transaction costs" of making social > institutions less opaque. The driving factor is the communist impulse > to have whatever affects the public interest out there in the public > view, subject to public debate and -- ultimately -- to people's > democratic control. IMO, this is a huge breakthrough -- its > ideological implications (which is to say, its practical political > implications) will prove to be huge. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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