"Little Brother is watching you" 
The phenomenon WikiLeaks of integral vision -out of Dennis Wittrock
: Magazine "Integral Perspectives, Issue 18, March 2011 With spectacular publications of a rough set of" Top Secret "as classified data, in the recent case of some 250,000 American diplomatic dispatches of the government, catapulted the Web site WikiLeaks and its founder and figurehead Julian Assange, overnight, into a global player in world politics. WikiLeaks is a lot of waves and the Empire Strikes Back. An inventory of events, coupled with a integral analysis of a Zeitgeist phenomenon of the Internet era.
Angela Merkel is "like Teflon and Westerwelle is characterized as" vain and incompetent ". What can be seen as official dispatches from the U.S. ambassador in Berlin, the excitement seems to WikiLeaks at first sight can not be justified. "This is not exactly new," or "I could also say you" are probably the most frequently cited responses. But one look at the background reveals rapidly and the dimension of the explosive revelations of the controversial web-platform. Imagine, you are to hold a public speech, the world live on TV transmitted. When you want to connect to the microphone, someone comes from behind and pulls you complete your trousers clean. Something like that has to be Hillary Clinton have felt when it became obvious that WikiLeaks has published a quarter of a million of classified documents for all to see on the web. By then the eyes of the world were on WikiLeaks. (The name similarity to "Wikipedia" is the way much to the chagrin of the popular Internet encyclopedia, which has a hard time in the public sphere of Assange activities to distinguish.) It follows the attempt of a recapitulation of the main stations, up to this spectacular coup have done.
A Chronicle of the fast-paced story of WikiLeaks Even in his youth was the Australian-born Julian Assange a talented hacker, the early stages in the Internet era, the trick was to penetrate into the central computer of the NASA and the U.S. military. Early on he realized the potential of the Internet for social activism and founded 2006 his platform WikiLeaks. This should be "leaked", that means leaked secret information that was of public interest and social relevance of informants stored anonymously and later released. When his project more accessible know-how and resources required, worked he and the German Chaos Computer Club ", including Daniel Domscheit Mountain. The first "leaks" had been leaked to include information that had a decisive influence on the outcome of an election in an African country, and revelations that WikiLeaks of dropouts within Scientology.
In 2009 saw the publication of internal documents of the Icelandic Kaupthing Bank, which was later embroiled in deep financial crisis, a stir. Five minutes before the broadcast date landed an order to the table of the news presenter, that the proposed report on Icelandic television should not be sent. Instead, they showed ado a screenshot from Wikileaks, with a request that the audience should inform themselves on the website. This led to the national popularity of the site in Iceland. Assange and his colleagues drew spontaneously a bill that would ensure that Iceland would transform the country into a media legislation equivalent of what the Cayman Islands for money laundering: a safe island for investigative journalism. The Icelandic Parliament nod from the proposal. The first global
bang came in April 2010 when the video WikiLeaks "Collateral Murder" published. The clip is to see the inhumanity with which U.S. soldiers combat innocent passers-by from a safe distance massacre from a helicopter gunship. The news agency Reuters, whose two employees were killed in this action, had previously tried unsuccessfully for the release of the video material at the American military. The pictures went around the world. In July 2010, published WikiLeaks the war diaries from Afghanistan, a collection of internal military records, which document the cruelty and absurdity of the war in meticulous detail. Then came the war diaries ("War Logs") from Iraq, with 391 832 reports to date the largest amount of published secret documents at all. What was new at this time Strategic collaboration with leading media partners, the British Guardian newspaper, the New York Times and Der Spiegel. The sheer mass of the sensitive information exceeded the capacity of the WikiLeaks editorial team. At the same time reached (collaborate internationally competing newsrooms for the first time for the processing of the material) Assange with his spectacular book on the established media channels tremendous attention to the cause of his organization, which ultimately was to secure the financial support of the non-profit organization through donations. In the course of 2010, its Internet platform more secret documents published as the collected World press together. (Assange commented in an interview as a sad testament to the press that their investigative order not comply sufficiently.) The "Cable-gate affair" with the diplomatic dispatches of the publication was offensive to the crown.
The Empire Strikes Back was taken Meanwhile the U.S. soldier Bradley Manning in custody, the WikiLeaks to have transmitted the allegedly secret documents. In a chat he had apparently entrusted to the wrong and must now expect the worst, until he is brought before a military court of the trial for high treason. Human rights organizations report that he is currently (Jan in 2011) held in inhumane conditions in solitary confinement. The U.S. government exerts massive pressure to stop the activities of Wikileaks, and in particular to sever the flow of money. Amazon refuses to host WikiLeaks to continue on its servers, PayPal freezes donation accounts to support WikiLeaks, Master Card, Visa, the Swiss Post Finance, and (announced on Assange further revelations in 2011), Bank of America, their services are in relation on WikiLeaks, and the reasons for this largely with breach of your terms and conditions. The chaotically organized hacker group "anonymous" blows with DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) Attacks to counter-attack and placed in the "Operation Payback" through mass requests temporarily shut several websites, including Master Card.
The Obama Administration is frantically while a legislative basis under which they can criminalize Assange activities. WikiLeaks is understood as a journalistic organization, if their investigative and journalistic activities under the protection of the Amendment's freedom of the press - which has always been a central pillar of American democracy and is. As she herself stolen, no sensitive data, but to only receive from anonymous sources and published, or transferred to the press, she does something that the "New York Times" does or should do at least. The latter gets himself under public pressure through cooperation with WikiLeaks calls, but also on the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. America is in a dilemma. National security or freedom of the press? The conservative propaganda machine is running hot. Sarah Palin (whose e-mail account hacked in 2008, was written on WikiLeaks) orders WikiLeaks to the same category as the Taliban and calls Assange persecution. The prominent U.S. politician Mike Huckabee calls for public executions Assange. Fox News commentator Bob Beckel called publicly to "the son of a bitch by illegal means" to shoot.
rape allegations against Assange the U.S. authorities will play an international arrest warrant in the cards, issued by a Swedish judge against Assange. Assange to have urged in Sweden two women against their will to unprotected sex without a condom, a crime under Swedish law. The women turned on the spot at a local police station, but stated that they had consented to sexual intercourse and is currently also did not feel threatened by Assange. A first warrant was dropped due to insignificance by the competent prosecutor. In the illustration of Der Spiegel "Assange, the next to his eccentric character a certain amount of promiscuity is said, a triangular affair with the two women, who, after they had been exposed, have solidarity then allegedly in revenge against Assange and have come to the police. Assange speaks of a "smear campaign" against him.
Some time later, a second international arrest warrant is issued, this time by another judge in another place. Assange, located in England reports to the police station to Sweden to cooperate with the authorities to comment on the accusations and to experience the actual content of the allegations against him. These are not reported to him. Instead, he is unprepared for awareness taken on the grounds that there is risk of escape. He feared extradition to Sweden, from where it can be further delivered to the U.S., where he again expects claims to a fair trial against him. The trial of Assange receives widespread media interest. Prominent supporters pay the required bail and Assange is permitted under house arrest with electronic ankle bracelet and a daily reporting requirement to wait for the estate of a supporter on the future course of extradition proceedings.
The hydra of "Mirror" sites and Assange "life insurance" The nature of the Internet in accordance went Attempts to force the U.S. administration, the genie of the digital information back into the bottle, completely backfired. Hundreds of supporters reflected the content of the blocked www.WikiLeaks.org domain to so-called "mirror" sites. Like the mythological hydra, which grow in place of a severed head, two new and constantly shoot new copies of WikiLeaks and many new, inspired by her side, for example, "OpenLeaks" (a project of Domscheit Mountain) from the ground - what the censorship efforts U.S. authorities can look almost as naive.
is also currently on the Internet a "life insurance" in a highly encrypted "Information bomb" or "poison pill" increase with highly sensitive files stored on multiple servers, Gigabyte size. Assange violence should be added - so the threat - the key will be published and the information accessible to a shock. The story reads like a spy thriller from the pen of a Hollywood director. How does the whole thing but now by an integral glasses are considered?
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