Showing posts with label #cablegate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #cablegate. Show all posts

December 15, 2010

Civil War

If somebody enters your house, attacks your family, steal your stuff and kicks the dog, do you have the right to defend yourself and defend your family? Yes, it is called self-defense. Is there any law that prevents you defend yourself? No. If someone catches you on the street and is intended to force you to keep a tape in the mouth and ear plugs, do you have the right to refuse? Yes, it's called right to freedom of expression and right to information. Is there any law that prevents you doing? Curiously, yes, and no one, several.

It is not about ideology, or the type of government that exists in every country, no matter whether it is a dictatorship or a supposed democracy, all governments create, blend and mend laws that cast doubt on the right to freedom of expression and information, but why? Well, in the case of dictatorships like China, Cuba or Iran, the reason is obvious, while the citizens ignore what happens around, it is easier to dictators maintain power. In the case of democracies alleged reason is ... Same! Even the excuses are the same, national security, state secrets, international relations, some people have even come to talk to endanger the 'free' nations, jeopardize the fight for democracy and freedom ...??? - Still hope that someone will explain how they fight for democracy and freedom stealing to the citizens, and we are waiting... sat-.

The question is not do so, because we all know they do, obviously, you just have to read everything related to #cablegate and lawless persecution against #WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, but all this is just another symptom of other things. The continued attacks against network neutrality, ACTA, censorship of content on the network, the imposition of outdated and irrelevant concepts such as copyright on the Internet, calling into question the exchange of files and information between the netizens... the question is whether we have or not have the right to defend ourselves, if we have the right not to get a plaster on our mouth and earplugs, if we have the right to defend ourselves from those who want to cover our mouths and plug our ears. And the answer is yes, we do.

We are at the dawn of a global civil war, a silent civil war based on ones and zeros that governments, Corporations and financial groups, that those who carry tapes and earplugs in their pocket, can not win. No matter whether arrest three activists, because instead appear thirty, and if they stop to those, thirty hundred will replace them, it will not matter because the fight will not stop ...

... and the fight cannot be fair... because we do not forgive, we do not forget, we are legion...

December 13, 2010

Propaganda

When a paramilitary organization raided a communist bookshop in Oklahoma, in 1940, took the publications, they said "inciting violence", and publicly burned in the city stadium. Among these publications was the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.

Times have changed...

Now the paramilitaries do not burn books on the stadiums of the cities, now make laws that will close websites, not because they belong to pedophiles, or incite anorexia because of our children, or because they do advocacy of Nazism - the largest concentration of sites pedophile network is Windows Live, and we have not seen any bill or notice to Microsoft on the closure of the service, anywhere in the world, no country-, close websites, pursuing authors and opinions because endanger corporations like Microsoft, banks that finance these corporations and financial lobbyists who take benefits of these pedophile websites putting their ads on them.

WikiLeaks is only a symptom of what happens, a symptom of what they want, such as those paramilitaries in 1940, we read what they want to read, we know what they want us to know, to be like they want to be, and if anything encourages what they call "violence" then burn websites at the city stadium.

Nonsense like this demonstrate how freedom of information is in danger. A risk driven even by the traditional media, they see how people start to opt for different ways to learn that these companies claim, but freedom of information is beyond governments, corporations and financial lobbies in whose hands are the vast majority of those traditional media. Because, make no mistake, the big question that has raised the #cablegate is how it is possible that traditional media have not been able to in 50 years to disclose information to WikiLeaks exposed to light, and the answer can not be other than those who pay for ads in the media were not interested.

The right to freedom of information is not negotiable, must be automatic, unquestionable and binding, can not be under the disquición of other interests, because the right to freedom of information is the basis of the human right to decide for himself, and the ability of human decision can not be qualified, biased or misguided, and we strive to do so.

"Propaganda is to democracy what the bludgeon is to the totalitarian state"

Noam Chomsky: The control of the media.



We fight, and the fight cannot be fair... because we do not forgive, we do not forget, we are legion...
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