Is Julian Assange a criminal or even a terrorist, as Sarah Palin has claimed? We know that Senator Lieberman has been an outspoken critic and self proclaimed censor of the Internet.
Recently Lieberman stated that Wikileaks, and all it’s clones, should be shut down and nobody should be allowed to read it.
Despite Palin and Lieberman a larger question looms and that question is should Julian Assange be considered a criminal because he is posting information given to him? This is information that removes Uncle Sam’s makeup and shows a very ugly face of America. Click here to read more…
And more, Twitter’s action in giving up posters’ details regarding libelling the members of a British local council has been spoken of as being “a warning shot to people that they cannot post things online with impunity”. Seeing as it cost 75 grand in court costs to get Twitter to give up the names, I think it illustrates more that you can post what you want to about poor people, but not about rich people who can afford court action. One law for the rich and one for the poor, same as ever.