Originally Posted by fuelair  I would put to you these incompetent little tools have made more of an impact on this planet than you have or ever will. What they are doing is giving You, Commerce at large, and Government at large is a serious Education of the existing digital age, and it looks like a lot of people don't particularly like this education. People don't like being exposed to how little the understand the current digital age and their incompetencies. Right now the Internet Security Business will be getting floods of requests about how companies and government can protect themselves from these attacks. These little tools are not going to go away, they have always been there, and now after this will only gain in strength and numbers due to the wikileaks issue though not apart of wikileaks. The US Government has bought this on themselves, using draconian measures to try to block wikileaks information, they invited contemporary digital activists to get on board. The US Government really showed how Naive they are when it comes to the understanding of the internet, let alone the power of social media. There are two points here. 1. the web, and the government seriously thinking that the blocking of DNS provider and withdrawing support from Paypal Mastercard visa etc would or could make any difference whatsoever, to the distribution of electronic data. Their ignorance of this medium is staggering. 2. Social Media. Being any person in any country and time zone can communicate with each other and share information "Instantly" It is obvious now that this was not even taken into account when they made the decision to go after wikileaks. And they are now paying the penalty for it. Now we are in a position, where the US government is aware of the impact of social media, are they considering their options in terms of reducing further risk via social media? I think anyone with any technical knowledge of the internet would agree with me, that once the cat is out of the bag, digital information wise, its out for good. there is no ability of any government to remove it once its out on the net and DVD media, flash disk media etc. So their only option may be to legislate against its mention on social media. This is where we are right now. This is a very scary time we are in right now. Only time will tell how it unveils. |
Thursday, December 9, 2010
In response to forum post ..
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
wikileaks and christopher hitchens response
In response to Christopher Hitchens latest article about Wikileaks.
http://www.slate.com/id/2276857/
I see that US Senator Joe Lieberman suggests New York Times could be investigated, plus many other News Org's
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/07/wikileaks-joe-lieberman-new-york-times-investigated
This is the first time this new technology called the internet has been tested.
With the advent of Web 2.0 and social media's growth over the last 3 to 5 years the world is entirely a different place, especially when it comes to News.
The speed to which news is gathered and distributed via social media is beyond the (a) scope of established News Org's (b) threatening established News Org's (c) Now integral to existing News Org's survival in the Digital Age.
Now we have US Senators calling for established News Org's to be investigated over their relationship with wikileaks. This shows that the people in power have absolutely no idea about contemporary media in 2010.
The new social web has provided us with two primary sites that distribute information faster than ever seen, now a scoops longevity can be measured in only seconds, such is the power of twitter and facebook. These two entities have distributed more information about the News Orgs listed in the above article in the last 2 weeks, then established News Orgs can hope to distribute in 10 years.
Are Twitter and Facebook now to be investigated along with the New York Times and Others? Are the people disseminating this information across Web 2.0 sites to be investigated?
What wikileaks has bought to the consciousness of the people in power , is the power of those people without any power joined together via Web 2.0 , and their inability via draconian non digital time laws to redress.
What pressure are the social networks under? especially now that the established News Media is under attack?
From what Ive seen of Zuckerberg, his fundamental position is that information should be open. Which is why his company has consistently been under pressure about privacy. What are his options if he is against
any form of censorship on his website? How will his community react to him being required to censor any information about wikileaks? His only option is to comply or move his company and its infrastructure to another country. Though I think its apparent that Facebook has become to large to be able to find Non Us services to cope with the size of his business.
Similarly with Twitter, it appears that they are alread censoring their trends in relation to wikileaks. How would the tiwtterverse react to any censorship pressure ?
Which brings us of course to Google. The main storer and distributor of millions and millions of entries about wikileaks. If you want to find the insurance cables? where do you go? Google will tell you were they are in the blink of an eye. Sure they can fight with china and move their services out of that country. Do they have any options other than censorship if the people in power decide to legislate against the distribution of
wikileaks material? The Google infrusture is one that has become the biggest power consuming company in the world, where they own their own power stations. Are they in a position to move to other countries that allow them to do business as they have done since inception? In my opinion their growth has limited them to the US.
It is Net Neutrality that is being tested right now wikileaks is just the catalyst for it.
My fear is that there will be new regulations put in place by people who's vintage has allocated them to using it only for email and simple blog entries and who do not understand anything about Web 2.0 let alone
where the net is heading in the near future. Sadly I have now put my hero Christopher Hitchens into this category after reading his latest article on it.
There are strong arguments on both sides of this debate, though I think the main argument points are being overlooked when what is happening right in front of our eyes now will / may determine the future of the internet.
Pete
http://www.slate.com/id/2276857/
I see that US Senator Joe Lieberman suggests New York Times could be investigated, plus many other News Org's
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/07/wikileaks-joe-lieberman-new-york-times-investigated
This is the first time this new technology called the internet has been tested.
With the advent of Web 2.0 and social media's growth over the last 3 to 5 years the world is entirely a different place, especially when it comes to News.
The speed to which news is gathered and distributed via social media is beyond the (a) scope of established News Org's (b) threatening established News Org's (c) Now integral to existing News Org's survival in the Digital Age.
Now we have US Senators calling for established News Org's to be investigated over their relationship with wikileaks. This shows that the people in power have absolutely no idea about contemporary media in 2010.
The new social web has provided us with two primary sites that distribute information faster than ever seen, now a scoops longevity can be measured in only seconds, such is the power of twitter and facebook. These two entities have distributed more information about the News Orgs listed in the above article in the last 2 weeks, then established News Orgs can hope to distribute in 10 years.
Are Twitter and Facebook now to be investigated along with the New York Times and Others? Are the people disseminating this information across Web 2.0 sites to be investigated?
What wikileaks has bought to the consciousness of the people in power , is the power of those people without any power joined together via Web 2.0 , and their inability via draconian non digital time laws to redress.
What pressure are the social networks under? especially now that the established News Media is under attack?
From what Ive seen of Zuckerberg, his fundamental position is that information should be open. Which is why his company has consistently been under pressure about privacy. What are his options if he is against
any form of censorship on his website? How will his community react to him being required to censor any information about wikileaks? His only option is to comply or move his company and its infrastructure to another country. Though I think its apparent that Facebook has become to large to be able to find Non Us services to cope with the size of his business.
Similarly with Twitter, it appears that they are alread censoring their trends in relation to wikileaks. How would the tiwtterverse react to any censorship pressure ?
Which brings us of course to Google. The main storer and distributor of millions and millions of entries about wikileaks. If you want to find the insurance cables? where do you go? Google will tell you were they are in the blink of an eye. Sure they can fight with china and move their services out of that country. Do they have any options other than censorship if the people in power decide to legislate against the distribution of
wikileaks material? The Google infrusture is one that has become the biggest power consuming company in the world, where they own their own power stations. Are they in a position to move to other countries that allow them to do business as they have done since inception? In my opinion their growth has limited them to the US.
It is Net Neutrality that is being tested right now wikileaks is just the catalyst for it.
My fear is that there will be new regulations put in place by people who's vintage has allocated them to using it only for email and simple blog entries and who do not understand anything about Web 2.0 let alone
where the net is heading in the near future. Sadly I have now put my hero Christopher Hitchens into this category after reading his latest article on it.
There are strong arguments on both sides of this debate, though I think the main argument points are being overlooked when what is happening right in front of our eyes now will / may determine the future of the internet.
Pete
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