Re: <nettime> Guardian Live on Assange's arrest

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

The principal sin is that Wikileaks undermined (by explicitly exposing 
crimes) the wide spread belief among subjects of modern states: "it is 
OK for my state/party to behave criminally, because I benefit from it, 
as long as they keep it quiet". This is the unpardonable offense.

If documenting crimes requires "super-empowered individual" it just 
means that criminals are expending enormous efforts to hide them.


> Assange (and Wikileaks) has become a prime example of what military
> theorist in the early 00s called a "super-empowered individual" capable
> of marshaling technology and resources available to non-sate actors to

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