I must admit that I am quite perturbed by the sheer amount of effort concentrated at not only censoring Wikileaks, but the censoring of media outlets that meerely comment on Wikileaks! It has become truly Orwellian in stature, and the worst part is that the attempts to censor something as distributed and collective in intellectual capital as the Internet is futile. All it has done has created ample bad will for governments worldwide, and those corporations that bowed to the pressure of said governments yet refuse to admit it. The bad will has gotten to the point where even I am pulling my patronage from Amazon (that means colored Nooks from now on, not Kindles, Barnes & Nobles for books and not Amazon.com, and Netflix for streaming content in lieu of Video on Demand). I can understand the need to bow to the pressure of the US government if you need to stay in business, but to cowtow and lie takes it a step to far.
Now that Amazon, the US government and a host of other entities have bandied together to censor Wikileaks and those media outlets that report on it, they have made Wikileaks more popular than Wikipedia itself! In addition, due to the distributed, collective community intelligence nature of the Internet, they have also (by pulling the plug on its conventional infrastructure) created a nearly unassailable infrastructure in the process. So, Wikileaks is banned in the Library of Congress, corporate intranets, and Amazon, but it lives everywhere else. You see, Censorship is to the Internet as Contagion is to a Host Body. The Internet (eg. the host body) moves to remove censorship as contagion. See below:
Mirror WikiLeaks Anonymously on Your Android Phone! Dec 5, 2010 These instructions are complete with root, server, automirror, and firewall… and there’s more:
Conclusion
If even a percentage of users did this, there would be tens of thousands of WikiLeaks mirrors hidden around the globe. Quite simple, really. And it makes the shutting down of WikiLeaks.com seem as utterly foolish as it was.
