Bruce Sterling has posted a great, almost purple rant entitled The Ecuadorian Library, on Manning, Assange, Snowden, and the future of the surveillance/leak game that’s only now just beginning to be played with modern equipment. The information wants to be free, but the governments of the world will crush your sniveling, naked meatspace body in a cold, hard cell afterward. And yet miraculously there’s more to come. Maybe lots, lots more.
Tag: wikileaks
US Extradition – Justice for Assange
A summary of the arguments that Assange will face extradition to the US upon transfer to Sweden. It’s a legalistic hairball.
UK Betrays Basic Values To Get Assange At Any Cost
Did the UK seriously just threaten to storm the Ecuadorian embassy in London to retrieve Assange? I mean, seriously? They’re willing to violate longstanding international diplomatic norms to get someone who’s just wanted for questioning related to a relatively minor alleged crime? Right. This is all quite surreal.
WikiLeaks cables on abortion politics
Furry Girl does a roundup of her research into abortion and other women’s rights issues as revealed by the WikiLeaks cables. Including the role that the Vatican plays in diplomatic policy, and the social consequences of elective abortions for sex-selection in China.
191 Days Without Charge on Vimeo
After more than six months, Assange has yet to be charged with a crime in any nation, and he remains under house arrest.
UN statement on WikiLeaks
UN Joint Statement on WikiLeaks – A pretty unequivocal statement from the UN to the effect that WikiLeaks’ activity is legal, and that the extrajudicial sanctions which have been applied to it are not.
Links for the week of December 9th, 2010
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Links for the week of December 3rd, 2010
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