Monday 18 February 2008

The Future Of Freedom Of Speech In The Cyber Age

A controversial website - Wikileaks - that allows whistle-blowers to anonymously post government and corporate documents has been taken offline in the US. It has already been blocked by the Chinese authorities, now it is time Swiss bankers had it shut down in the US.

Obviously, it was so cozy to perform money laundering and other dirty financial tricks before the Internet age. Now the anonymity of such transactions has been (partly) blasted. As there are naturally too many very powerful fingers in the pie - over 90% of international trade consists of currency futures - attempts to reveal such as Wikileaks will be taken offline. East or West, money feels the best.

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