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Opinion: WikiLeaks may die out but seminal idea will endure

donal brown November 11, 2011

WikiLeaks seems all the more vulnerable as the founder, Julian Assange, is likely to be extradited from Britain to Sweden on charges of sexual misconduct. But even if WikiLeaks falls, the idea of a transnational organization gathering and disseminating information while evading the grasp of governments, seems likely to survive, writes David Carr in The New York Times. Notwithstanding, Carr says, for various reasons document drops of the scope of the U.S. classified war documents from

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Justice Department gains right to WikiLeaks associates’ Twitter info

donal brown November 10, 2011

A federal judge upheld a lower court decision that the Justice Department may obtain records of twitter accounts of three current and former WikiLeaks associates. Under the ruling by the lower court, the order includes records showing the times messages were sent to one another and the Internet IP addresses but does not include the content of messages nor information on other Twitter user who follow the accounts. -db From Wired, November 10, 2011, by

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Bloomberg editors call National Security Agency secrecy policy ‘dysfunctional’

donal brown November 8, 2011

Bloomberg editors Max Berley and Tobin Harshaw were unimpressed with NSA’s declassification of 50,000 pages of historic documents and the agency’s boast that the act demonstrated the Obama administration’s commitment to openness. The editors said one of the documents released was already long in the public domain and that the release of the documents was a pathetic diversion from the administration’s poor record on open government. -db From a commentary for Bloomberg Businessweek, November 8, 2011,

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Opinion: Congress copyright bill threat to whistleblowing and Internet

donal brown November 7, 2011

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) under consideration in Congress could result in extensive Internet censorship and threaten the work of human rights advocates and whistleblowers, argues Trevor Timm, an Electronic Frontier Foundation lawyer. “[SOPA]threatens to transform copyright law, pushing Internet intermediaries—from Facebook to your ISP—to censor whole swaths of the Internet. SOPA could forever alter social networks, stifle innovation and creativity, and destroy jobs…” and even bring about the end of the Internet as

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The odds against WikiLeaks

FAC November 7, 2011

Is the WikiLeaks movement, faced with myriad internal and external challenges, on the precipice? And if so, will this marriage of technology and transparency emerge in new forms? In a New York Times essay, media writer David Carr examines the troubles bearing down on WikiLeaks and asserts that the challenge to similar approaches might be less technological than the simple fact that there’s a shortage of whistleblowers with access and willingness to risk prosecution. Full

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