{"id":10915,"date":"2010-12-10T12:12:05","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T17:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=10915"},"modified":"2010-12-10T12:12:05","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T17:12:05","slug":"what-is-wikileaks-really-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/what-is-wikileaks-really-about\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Wikileaks really about?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10916\" title=\"Wikileaks -anti-us\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Wikileaks-anti-us.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"374\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The familiar irony is that the medium used to disseminate the leaked information was invented by the military of the imperialists that these protestors seem intent on smashing. And it is now maintained by the commercial interests of the same imperialists.<\/p>\n<p>To compound the irony, hackers mounting Denial of Service attacks against banks and governments in the name of free speech, by trying to bring down web sites, are actually doing their bit to suppress free speech.<\/p>\n<p>The members of this particular coterie of twerps are the new Luddites: they won\u2019t be happy until they have destroyed the underpinnings of the system that maintains the technology they love to play with. They still won\u2019t be happy, though, because spoilt children that they are, they will have broken all their toys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This: The familiar irony is that the medium used to disseminate the leaked information was invented by the military of the imperialists that these protestors seem intent on smashing. And it is now maintained by the commercial interests of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/what-is-wikileaks-really-about\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[326],"tags":[2284],"class_list":["post-10915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wikileaks","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}