It’s not really “the Internet” per se Assange is talking about, but the whole panoply of information processing technology once it becomes wedded to networking. One doesn’t need TCP/IP at all to do a lot of surveillance. And I think visions of total dystopia and domination are often as unrealistic as ones of utopian perfection.







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Assange: The Internet Could Create a "Totalitarian Spying Regime"

Assange said the web could allow greater government transparency, but also gave authorities their best ever opportunity to monitor and catch dissidents.

March 15, 2011  |