Information wars

Information is power and in the age of the information revolution, cyber and satellite communication is transforming our lives, reinventing the relationship between people and power. New media, from WikiLeaks to Facebook, Twitter to YouTube, is persistently challenging the traditional flow of information, and cyber disobedience is exposing powerful governments. Websites are now being treated like hostile territories; whistleblowers and leakers as terrorists, and hackers as insurgents. Governments are scrambling to salvage their influence and take advantage of the new cyber and satellite media. From China to the Sudan, Egypt to Iran, despots and armies are tracking web activity and setting up Facebook accounts to spy on their citizens. So is this the century of free information and expression as the cyber utopians predicted, or new methods of electronic oppression as the cyber sceptics warned?

Category:

• News

Tags:

• empire
• marwan
• bishara
• information
• wars
• revolution
• cyber
• wikileaks
• facebook
• twitter
• youtube
• disobedience
• carl
• bernstein
• amy
• goodman
• emily
• bell
• evgeny
• morozov
• clay
• shirky
• daniel
• ellsberg
• charlie
• beckett
• jeremy
• goldkorn
• internet
• aljazeera

[Nouvertne25]

Unification Through Communication!

May the new media rule--so nationalism becomes a thought of the past!

[earthtojanson]

Hilary Clinton- "Free expressions has its limits" 0:13

How hypocritical is the US. Whenever, America's national interest are at stake, they say that freedom has its limits. However, when other countries do the same, they same it's human rights violation. Ohh Politics...

[SlugChristie]

great panel, shame it couldn't have run longer.

[12TabulaRasa12]

interesting video!

[2Durr]

alll you FU::... people only do is Just Talkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.

Dont you know who is all behind this i dont need a damn talkshow from 4:50

Cant you understand what the f... is going onnn

check my page.

This is people who infiltrade dictators and goverments.

That is the Big core of the source of the problem

If you get rid of this people wont die any more!!!!

If eu can put a damn fly zone for a dictator.

and US they can get a swat team on Bin laden.

gaddafi is a terrorist damn STUPID PEOPLE

[MalisaAlexan]

cool must see facebook trick /watch?v=Fd0di5HFboY

[Canada1953]

Excellent!

[LuckyLeftyLuciano]

Top notch.

[MrKittycatno1]

good video it lets you know there is more going on that doesn,t meet the eye you know the big picture

[PeaceMouse17]

WikiLeaks is a great site dedicated to the Freedom of Speech and the Press and also the Freedom of Information Act.

[Servant2All]

Great panel! I'm glad that Carl Bernstein tipped his has by saying that information should be disseminated with an "opinion", should be vetted! What he's saying is that "responsible" media would never release such sensitive information like Wikileaks does without telling the public what they should THINK about said information. I'm glad he came across as the bloated pig that he is!