Julian Assange, the founder of the whistleblower WikiLeaks website has warned that the world’s greatest spying machine is the Internet. Social networking websites are helping to reveal the informations of their own citizens.
Assange spoke with the students of Cambridge University in Britain last Tuesday. As a former computer hacker he claimed that Internet, especially social networking sites such as “Facebook” will give the governments greater scope for snooping.
According to him “Three or four years ago there was actually a ‘Facebook’ revolt in Cairo,” “That was how so easy, Facebook was used to round up all principal participants and they were then beaten, interrogated and incarcerated,”
Julian concluded that despite the internet having a enormous benefit just like the ability to let other people know what is the government is doing, however, it also serve as the greatest spying machine.
He also stressed out the technology does not favor human rights or freedom of speech, hence, it serve as a tool to create a spying regime that is unstoppable and very dangerous. Assange also added that his website was able to help trigger the ongoing Arab uprising.
Whistleblower Julian also believed that the release of ‘official US diplomatic documents’ had changed a part of the dynamics in Tunisia, resulting in eventual regime change.
Julian Assange has sympathized Bradley Manning, the imprisoned US soldier, who was suspected of having leaked the cables.
“Our support for his difficulty cannot be mentioned too loudly,” he said.
