https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/empire-against-republic-what-explains-the-neocon-rage-against-wikileaks/2010/12/18 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Mon, 20 Dec 2010 06:01:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/empire-against-republic-what-explains-the-neocon-rage-against-wikileaks/2010/12/18/comment-page-1#comment-456321 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 06:01:44 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=12378#comment-456321 […] Empire against Republic: What explains the neocon rage against Wikileaks? "This is a clash of principles, a rupture in the rules of the game that the practitioners of US foreign policy find astonishing and threatening. And it is a rupture only made possible by the scale and transnational scope of internet-enabled communications. Not content to characterize computers and networks as weapons, the American Right now edges closer and closer to being enemies of the internet itself. Despite all their noises about opposing “big government” they reveal themselves to be completely and unambiguously on the Hamiltonian side of the great American Jefferson-Hamilton debate. The new polarity is here: Internet freedom vs. state power." […]

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