Where’s WikiLeaks? The ‘Infowar’ Is on as Site Hops Servers

Guess I’m not the only one who thinks a war is brewing between ‘the internet’ and the establishment. “Early this morning, the WikiLeaks Twitter feed reposted a tweet from EFF cofounder John Perry Barlow. ‘The first serious infowar is now engaged,’ Barlow wrote. ‘The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.’ Barlow is no stranger to theatrical overstatement; this, after all, is the guy who in 1996 penned “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace” that opened with the lines: ‘Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.’ Barlow was wrong about sovereignty. Despite its name, ‘cyberspace’ runs on physical infrastructure that sits in various governmental jurisdictions, and when sites like Wikileaks start irritating those governments, sovereignty is quite powerfully brought to bear. Still, his recent tweet is accurate. There’s a war on for WikiLeaks, and it’s being fought all over the world.”

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