Julian Assange arrested (merged)

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Just heard in the finnish "Radio Rock" news that some or all of the Wikileaks (didn't really listen, it's 7:30Am and I thikn I'm still a tad drunk) crew are breaking off and are going to make their own site that releases leaked documents to only few chosen news sites. It should be coming online on Monday under the name of "openleaks".

EDIT: Then again, the morning show is just about making fun of everything and everyone. So... maybe better to wait for Monday and wait and see.

EDIT2: Here be something about it: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20025254-281.html

Saw it confirmed on a British and German news site as well. Although they said "some" co-wokers abandon Wikileaks over Assange treating them "like slave workers" - so not all staff is leaving, said these news.

Anyhow, I think what we see in general is a new media format and a new "phase" in public politics. Seeing how intensely the power-monopoles and secrecy-m onopoles has been absued by governments, political parties, lobby groups, and the network these three formed in the hidden, I cannot different then in general welcoming this trend, although I also see that it will make some businesses of dsealing with totalitarian regimes and powerful business lobbies running in hidden dirty-mode much more difficult. Our politcs are so deeply corrupted and an abuse of the terms "transparency" and "democracy" and "freedom", that the gains of many more Wikileaks-clones seem to outweigh the losses.

At least as long as we do not volkuntariuly wish to turn ourselves into totalitarian regimes. Nobody of us lives in a real democracy currently. It all is mixtures of oligarchies and plutocracies and lobby-Mafias.