Secondo me, questo articolo di John Naughton sul Guardian e' il piu' completo, lucido e penetrante finora uscito sul tema Wikileaks. Must read. juan carlos Live with the WikiLeakable world or shut down the net. It's your choice /Western political elites obfuscate, lie and bluster -- and when the veil of secrecy is lifted, they try to kill the messenger/ * o John Naughton <http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/johnnaughton> o guardian.co.uk <http://www.guardian.co.uk>, Monday 6 December 2010 20.59 GMT 'Never waste a good crisis" used to be the catchphrase of the Obama team in the runup to the presidential election. In that spirit, let us see what we can learn from official reactions to the WikiLeaks revelations <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/the-us-embassy-cables>. The most obvious lesson is that it represents the first really sustained confrontation between the established order and the culture of the internet. There have been skirmishes before, but this is the real thing. And as the backlash unfolds -- first with deniable attacks on internet service providers hosting WikiLeaks <http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/01/wikileaks-website-cables-servers...>, later with companies like Amazon and eBay and PayPal <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11917891> suddenly "discovering" that their terms and conditions preclude them from offering services to WikiLeaks, and then with the US government attempting to intimidate Columbia students posting updates about WikiLeaks on Facebook -- the intolerance of the old order is emerging from the rosy mist in which it has hitherto been obscured. The response has been vicious, co-ordinated and potentially comprehensive, and it contains hard lessons for everyone who cares about democracy and about the future of the net. There is a delicious irony in the fact that it is now the so-called liberal democracies that are clamouring to shut WikiLeaks down. [...] Continua qui: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/dec/06/western-democ...