Julian Assange, of Wikileaks fame, has stood George Orwell on his head. Move over Big Brother, it is now the Kid Brother who is watching!
So far only two countries seem to be supporting what Wikileaks has done. Australia and Russia are in Assange's corner, and before we wonder at that irony, look who are on the other side. China and the USA have come together in their opposition to Assange, never mind the tricky business about freedom of press and speech. Is this the end of diplomacy as we know it? Or, will the Wikileaks make state level transactions even more opaque? Interestingly, Wikileaks did not face serious functional constraints as long as it was spewing out details of America's botched manoeuvres in Iraq and Iran.
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This was the period between April to October 2010. But when on November 28, 2010, Wikileaks released diplomatic documents that made heads of state and their officials look stupid the knives really came out. Within hours every American owned Domain Name Server, or DNS, without which you cannot browse the web or use the internet, was pressured to drop Wikileaks from
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