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Good article on why we should defend wikileaks

"While world passengers are made to strip at US airports, US Security gets stripped on Wikileaks . Karma?"
We are told "If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" but the governement takes a very different view when its information is exposed. This article give some insights into how one should think about this problem.

Philosophy and the Social Web

Given at the 1st Web and Philosophy Conference. After determining the core issues of Privacy and centralisation in Social Networks, this talk shows how these issues are not related to the Architecture of the Web, or the philosophy underpinning it, but an issue of perception by developers and users who fail to see the solution available for the taking: distributed Social Networks, also known as the Social Web. This is shown by looking at issues in the Philosophy of Language and Philosophy of Mind.

The Social Networking Mess: Why we need the Social Web

Short 10 minute video that covers the major problems with social networks today:
- privacy
- inability to move
- inability to connect to other networks
- ownership of information
etc,
And how one can solve this in an open, patent free way, with current technology.