"The internet is self destructing paper. A place where anything written is soon destroyed by rapacious competition and the only preservation is to forever copy writing from sheet to sheet faster than they can burn.

If it's worth writing, it's worth keeping. If it can be kept, it might be worth writing. Would your store your brain in a startup company's vat? If you store your writing on a 3rd party site like blogger, livejournal or even on your own site, but in the complex format used by blog/wiki software de jour you will lose it forever as soon as hypersonic wings of internet labor flows direct people's energies elsewhere. For most information published on the internet, perhaps that is not a moment too soon, but how can the muse of originality soar when immolating transience brushes every feather?"

--Julian Assange, "Tue 05 Dec 2006 : Self destructing paper"

(Informed some of my own thoughts, anyway.)

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[-]Raw_Power14y00

That's some really cool writing the guy's got..

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[-]Costanza15y40

No offense, but I think this topic and its presentation here is too political for this particular forum. I am not judging your argument on its merits, just saying there are other places to make it.

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[-]taw15y170

This post is pretty low quality, so I understand the downvotes.

However, this subject isn't "too political" - wikileaks has very significant implications for coordination of decision making for large groups - something that's definitely on topic for a rationality site. And there was never any "less political" equivalent of wikileaks.

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