[Infowarrior] - Why Wikileaks polarizes America's Internet politics

[Richard Forno]

Why Wikileaks polarizes America's Internet politics
by Milton Mueller on Tue 07 Dec 2010 03:06 PM EST  |  Permanent Link  |  ShareThis

At IGP we pride ourselves on having a pretty good bead on internet governance issues, but we have to admit that the emergence of Wikileaks as a global governance issue took us by surprise. The internet has proven itself to be a source of political disruption in a way we did not anticipate.

There have been strategic leaks of diplomatic information many times before. Often the practitioners are diplomats or other insiders in the political-military-diplomatic axis who use it as a form of policy influence. What makes this case different are the following things:

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