The US's Reaction To Wikileaks Is Doing A Lot More Harm

Found on Techdirt on Sunday, 12 December 2010
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So far, most of the reaction from various politicians and diplomats concerning the actual content of the documents was that some of it might be slightly embarrassing, but there's been nothing all that surprising.

We're still hearing claims that Julian Assange needs to be put on trial or (worse) executed, and other forms of "attacks" should be made on Wikileaks itself.

This will make it much, much harder any time the US tries to stop any form of censorship in other countries, as they'll immediately point back at how many of our politicians flipped out over Wikileaks.

Double standards. There's a difference between "freedom for everybody" and "freedom for everybody except when we don't like it".