The United States government is diligent--some might say to the
point of obsession--in defending its borders against invaders. Now
we are told a small, international band of renegades armed with
nothing more than laptops presents the greatest threat to the U.S.
regime since the close of the Cold War. WikiLeaks' release of a
massive trove of secret official documents has riled politicians
from across the spectrum. Even noted free-speech advocate Floyd
Abrams blames WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for the certain
defeat of federal shield-law legislation protecting journalists.
Hyperbole, hysteria? Certainly. Welcome to the Age of Transparency.
But political analyst and writer Micah Sifry argues that WikiLeaks
is not the whole story: It is a symptom, an indicator of an ongoing
generational and philosophical struggle between older, closed
systems, and the new open culture of the Internet. Despite
Assange's arrest, the publication of secret documents continues. As
Sifry shows, this is part of a larger movement for greater
governmental and corporate transparency: "When you combine
connectivity with transparency--the ability for more people to see,
share and shape what is going on around them--the result is a huge
increase in social energy, which is being channeled in all kinds of
directions."
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