What happens now? What’s the point? I’ve heard this question a good few times over the last few days. Sometimes it’s not really motivated by a desire to find the answer. In these cases, it’s just a rhetorical question undercutting the importance of the documents or reflecting general cynicism about the susceptibility to change of the networks of power held culpable in the logs. I will write more about this later.
But sometimes it is a genuine question. I answered a friend recently in a private conversation, listing broadly the immediate effects of the leaks, but also attempting to describe how Wikileaks is becoming a force for more long term and substantive change...
(originally published October 28, 2010)
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