Strange turn of events: Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, an apostle of transparency, the man who shook the Western diplomacy by a massive flight of State Department telegrams which the shock wave is still felt in Tech News Buzz Arab-Muslim political risk a trial for a sex scandal. The nightmare scenario envisioned by its advocates is, in fact, that the decision of British justice, Thursday, February 24, extradite Mr Assange to Sweden, where he was charged with sexual assault, eventually result in a second time, his extradition to the United States.
The U.S. Department of Justice opened an investigation into the personal role of Julian Assange, who is an Australian citizen, in the dissemination of classified documents from Pentagon and State Department. Unlike the soldier Bradley Manning, suspected of being behind the leaks and currently imprisoned, Julian Assange is yet subject to any charge in the U.S., but a grand jury was made up for its eventual implementation charge.
The founder of Wikileaks has appealed the court decision in London and Sweden is not a banana republic. Many legal experts believe, moreover, it will be very difficult for the American justice system to mount a solid case against Julian Assange. Even distant, the threat of prosecution in the United States still hovers over him, asking the question clearly: Julian Assange is it a source of information and should be protected under freedom of expression? One can easily understand the fury of the U.S.
administration to see his methods and secrets and spread in the world press for weeks. But his position is somewhat paradoxical. For over a year, through a remarkable speech that resonated far beyond the borders of the United States "homeland" of the Internet, Hillary Clinton, head of American diplomacy, has made the bard the free flow of information on the Internet and its role in the democratization process on the planet.
The United States is funding through Tech News Buzz NGOs that produce software for Iranian dissidents, Burmese and Chinese to encrypt their messages to bypass censorship systems and to erase their traces on the Internet. Therefore, the Obama administration - which has also kept well to criticize the powerful New York Times publication of diplomatic telegrams, reserving his ire at one site Wikileaks - may refuse to apply the principles that it preaches to the rest of the world? Tech News Buzz, who was one of the top five newspapers in the WikiLeaks documents, is convinced that publication of such information was within the duty to inform.
United States, freedom of expression is defended by the First Amendment of the Constitution. Julian Assange must be placed under its protection. w Article published in the edition of 26.02.11 
The U.S. Department of Justice opened an investigation into the personal role of Julian Assange, who is an Australian citizen, in the dissemination of classified documents from Pentagon and State Department. Unlike the soldier Bradley Manning, suspected of being behind the leaks and currently imprisoned, Julian Assange is yet subject to any charge in the U.S., but a grand jury was made up for its eventual implementation charge.
The founder of Wikileaks has appealed the court decision in London and Sweden is not a banana republic. Many legal experts believe, moreover, it will be very difficult for the American justice system to mount a solid case against Julian Assange. Even distant, the threat of prosecution in the United States still hovers over him, asking the question clearly: Julian Assange is it a source of information and should be protected under freedom of expression? One can easily understand the fury of the U.S.
administration to see his methods and secrets and spread in the world press for weeks. But his position is somewhat paradoxical. For over a year, through a remarkable speech that resonated far beyond the borders of the United States "homeland" of the Internet, Hillary Clinton, head of American diplomacy, has made the bard the free flow of information on the Internet and its role in the democratization process on the planet.
The United States is funding through Tech News Buzz NGOs that produce software for Iranian dissidents, Burmese and Chinese to encrypt their messages to bypass censorship systems and to erase their traces on the Internet. Therefore, the Obama administration - which has also kept well to criticize the powerful New York Times publication of diplomatic telegrams, reserving his ire at one site Wikileaks - may refuse to apply the principles that it preaches to the rest of the world? Tech News Buzz, who was one of the top five newspapers in the WikiLeaks documents, is convinced that publication of such information was within the duty to inform.
United States, freedom of expression is defended by the First Amendment of the Constitution. Julian Assange must be placed under its protection. w Article published in the edition of 26.02.11
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