This is great stuff here from Julian Assange, co-founder of the increasingly well-known organization WikiLeaks.

Paraphrasing Orwell, Assange explains that he who controls today’s internet servers controls the intellectual record of mankind. In this speech to the Oslo Freedom Forum, he warns about Western governments, large corporations, and certain wealthy individuals who are increasingly able to wield power and influence to remove material permanently from the historical record using sophisticated methods. “If the West doesn’t reverse its course of increased censorship and rights abuses, Assange warns, it will lose all of the ideals that it once stood for.”

Or should one add that it will continue to lose all those ideals it once stood for, considering the rate the US is going today in replicating the model of the USSR when it comes to matters of empire and surveillance state tactics and techniques.

WikiLeaks - “The method is transparency; The goal is justice.”