June 25, 2013
AP, June 25, 2013: “National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden’s globe-trotting evasion of U.S. authorities has dealt a startling setback to efforts to strengthen ties with China and raised the prospect of worsening tensions with Russia.” Who would have thought whistleblowers would ever become so powerful?
The Socionomist, May 2010: “Paranoid governments have plenty to worry about. For example, Wikileaks, a whistleblower website, illustrates how an unfettered Internet undercuts governments’ ability to control information. … The days of unrestricted whistleblowers on the Web are numbered.”
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