The Cyber World War I is slowly starting. Every media outlet is buzzing about wikileaks and the whole world apart from few brave anonymous people have turned against Julian Assange. A man who is simply following what has been written in the Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace.
We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth.
We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.
Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are based on matter, There is no matter here.
Now, when you think about it, it actually works. Every agency, every company, every single person which is trying to disrupt the natural flow of the information is taken down by the Internet itself. Let it be Visa, http://www.aklagare.se or PayPal, they have all turned against the free flow of information and they are paying for it, the Low Orbit Ion Cannon is shooting at them from every place on the Internet, and with an army of millions, Operation: Payback is in full combat mode.
Jeff Jarvis has summed this whole situation up and I couldn’t agree more:
I can use Visa and Mastercard to pay for porn and support anti-abortion fanatics, Prop 8 homophobic bigots, and the Ku Klux Klan. But I can’t use them or PayPal to support Wikileaks, transparency, the First Amendment, and true government reform.
Live long and prosper Internet.
