We resume our lyrical forays into the world of rhyme and reason, exploring the importance of the Internets. Robert Foster casts a critical rhyme over Senator Joe (Lie)berman's proposed bill to shut down the world-wide-web in case of [quotation mark] an emergency [/quotation mark].
But - most importantly - we discuss something else which has been leaking even more profusely than a BP oil well. An organisation of ultra-inspiring infectively-courageous cybernauts - aka Wikileaks - has been taking on the Fistagon and giving that slumbering Fourth Estate a much-needed kick in the arse, reminding us how important the internet is as a tool for open information and for holding corrupt government to account.
What is Wikileaks? Who is Julian Assange? And why is it so important that we know what's happening right now? Find out with your charming host, Robert Foster.
**Episode dedicated to Mama Wolf - happy birthday!**
Written by Giordano Nanni; lyrics and performance by Hugo Farrant. Created by Farrant & Nanni in a back-yard studio in suburban Melbourne, on Wurundjeri Land.
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Find out more about:
Wikileaks: http://wikileaks.org
Lieberman on CNN: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkMEPb...
'Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protecti...
Wikileaks leaked video - 'Collateral Murder': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrf...
Julian Assange on Wikileaks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVGqE7...
For Australians: fight internet censorship here at home: http://nocleanfeed.com/
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CAPTIONS: Many thanks to Siltaar and Koolfy and all the crew at La Quadrature du Net IRC channel for providing English captions
* Thanks to Siltaar for and French rhyming translation.
* Thanks to Magdalena for German translation
* Thanks to Marc (marc2377) for Portuguese translation
* Thanks to Lina from projectlove[dot]me for Spanish translation
* Thanks to Vanja for Serbian translation
* Thanks to Nikos for Greek translation
* Thanks to Elina A. for Estonian translation
* Thanks to Bartosz for Polish translation
* Thanks to Copyninjy for Russian translation
* Thanks to Marjan Rizov for Macedonian translation
* Thanks to Damarauder for Dutch translation
* Thanks to Hanan Mahmoud for Arabic translation
* Thanks to Takanori Eto (江藤 貴紀) for Japanese translation
