No seguimento de WikiLeaks (8), What the State Fears Most: Information:
All too often, history provides us with examples of state-enforced book burnings and other forms of extreme censorship. Many of us today take our so-called freedom of speech for granted, and few realize just how pervasive government censorship remains ..
.. Assange cracked the government’s veil of benignity and brought into question the state’s tactics. His website undermines its moral authority.
WikiLeaks was only shut down for one day. The service found a new host .. Bureaucracy has been stumped by a new obstacle .. — the Internet. Now it is the state that finds itself one step behind. Book burning has been rendered obsolete.
.. It is worthwhile to consider the following passage from Ludwig von Mises’s Human Action,
In the long run there is no such thing as an unpopular government. Civil war and revolution are the means by which the discontented majorities overthrow rulers and methods of government which do not suit them.
Bloody revolution is no longer with the times, because government’s armies are becoming more and more immaterial. As this WikiLeaks episode unfolds, and as government sows the seeds of its own humiliation, we will see government combated, not by force of arms, but by the supremacy of the market.
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A quem não interessa os leaks do “Wikileaks” está cada vez mais claro:
Os incomodados poderes instituídos analisados neste e noutros posts, também.
Mas, e a quem interessa os leaks do “Wikileaks”?
Basta dizer, “Julian Assange, through WikiLeaks, has made available to society a vast collection of information that undermines the state’s legitimacy.”? J.Assange, assim, com um passe mágica? a partir do nada?
Quem está, e quais são as motivações por tráz disto?
Comentário por JS — Dezembro 16, 2010 @ 22:36