The most interesting thing to me personally is how the US is acting with regard to Wikileaks and Julian Assange.
As usual, they are behaving like a big schoolyard bully. No dialog, no acknowledgement of their bad behaviour, just more aggression as they flail about yelling and swinging.
Don't believe me?
* They had Amazon.com and others pull the plug on hosting Wikileaks. No US ISP will dare to host it again.
* They intimidated Pay-Pal into withdrawing its services from Wikileaks.
* "MasterCard is taking action to ensure that Wikileaks can no longer accept MasterCard-branded products" a spokesman for MasterCard Worldwide said Monday.
* And now Visa has joined in and has denied access to its services by Wikileaks.
* And no doubt there are others that we haven't heard about yet.
Dan Gillmor in his Salon column says this - "If journalism can routinely be shut down the way the government wants to do this time, we'll have thrown out free speech in this lawless frenzy".
And we think they are our friends?
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