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While Tumblr was down yesterday, I took the liberty to do a little bit of research on Julian Assange and Wikileaks.
Not sure where I stand or what other peoples opinions are, but the general consensus is that what they are doing is arguably borderline criminal. Confidential data is classified as such for a reason, usually because it’s content is not intended to broadcast to the general public, or indeed those by which it concerns. Sometimes secrets are meant to stay secret, for a reason. That being said, the anarchist socialist within me is loving all the red faces that ‘Cablegate’ is making right now, and there is a very strong argument for transparency within government and with freedom of speech, e.t.c. Not saying that I don’t take these arguments on board because I do. It doesn’t take a Politics student to work out that government is crooked as the day is long and will only function for it’s own benefit, and perhaps that is what Wikileaks serves to uncover, but Julian Assange has to be one of the most powerful men in the world right now…
That being said, it is interesting to watch a countries across the globe do their very best to drive it into the ground with Amazon, Paypal & PostFinanace all withdrawing service, I just hope that it can survive long enough to reveal everything that it has to say, even if that does bring us into a new age of post-nuclear-apocalyptic warfare.

PS: I also voted for Julian Assange, TIMES person of the year…