Friday, December 10, 2010

Delicious Irony

From the Boston Globe, a nice roundup of European coverage of American reaction to WikiLeaks. Example:

John Naughton, writing in the Guardian:

“The response has been vicious, coordinated and potentially comprehensive,’’ he said, and presents a “delicious irony’’ that “it is now the so-called liberal democracies that are clamoring to shut WikiLeaks down.’’

A year ago, he noted, Clinton made a major speech about Internet freedom, interpreted as a rebuke to China’s cyberattack on Google. “Even in authoritarian countries,’’ she said, “information networks are helping people to discover new facts and making governments more accountable.’’ To Naughton now, “that Clinton speech reads like a satirical masterpiece.’’

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1 Comments:

At 7:59 AM, December 10, 2010 Anonymous Mark had this to say...

Well, here's the problem with that. Americans do not call their country a liberal democracy. They don't have a clue what that means.

 

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