Whether you agree with what Wikileaks is doing or not the fall-out from this could be worrying.
Amazon stopped its hosting after:
an inquiry from Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.), whose staff had contacted Amazon on Tuesday to inquire about Amazon's hosting of the site and whether it had plans to take it down.
They pulled it after a mere enquiry from one senator's office
Followed quickly by
On Friday, the French industry minister, Eric Besson, ordered the government's Internet supervisory agency to find a way to prevent France-based servers from hosting WikiLeaks
One has to wonder at the origin all the cyber attacks taking place resulting in the website being almost unattainable at times.
Many countries have web filters in place preventing information they do not like from reaching their people. The regimes in place doing this denial of service are not the most liberal in the world, we in the west often take the high road and criticize them for doing so, but now we have firmly joined the ranks of controlled information.
Controlling the internet may turn out to be simpler than controlling the individual 'leakers' of information themselves. Why spend millions in security when you can merely block web access?
With corporations controlling both the MSM and Web providers this is becoming easier with each passing day. Controlling dissemination of information is at the heart of controlling the people. Orwell would be finding this most interesting.
The Deep-Web is unknown to most and inaccessible to the inexperienced [teh Google does not go there] and is probably bigger than the 'visible' internet itself. A difficult place to find what you are looking for and may end up being where WikiLeaks lurks.
No matter how well you build a system to control the information available at any given time a hacker will eventually break through, but will the information found still be pertinent?
The internet is hardly a free and easy flow of information it is also used by our own governments to create mischief elsewhere and as we are seeing now creating roadblocks to its own populations. As the ownership of this service falls into fewer and fewer hands net neutrality gets thrown out through the door, and the information we have access to becomes more banal and controlled.
The First Information War is well under way.