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Internet Censorship and the War On Wikileaks

There are politicians on both sides of the aisle who seem content to dabble in the notion that the internet is the 'exception to the rule' and if therefore ripe for exploitation. Exploitation in the form of ubiquitous, or infringing legislation in the guise of protecting the American people from bad things that they have no control over. In recent years we have seen several pieces of proposed censorship..err, I mean legislation that in one way of the other gave the United States, or some arm thereof, the power to dictate how bus…