What do you think of Assange and Wikileaks?

He's fighting censorship? I missed that. Last I checked many other countries have many more censorship problems than us. Even so, how is he fighting censorship? Seems more like he's "fighting secrecy." Two very different things to me. Trust me, I'm against media censorship in all forms. He's not fighting that. I'm more against this guy being a douchebag.

I quoted this before (not here). Very good editorial on it.

Governments, like married couples, are entitled to their secrets - from us, from the kids and from the neighbors. Total transparency produces total opaqueness. If everything's open, no one says anything. The WikiLeaks brouhaha will pass. Diplomats will once again be indiscreet at cocktail parties and rat out one another in the same way some people marry repeatedly, each time forever. The only thing worse than indiscretion is efforts to puni...sh the miscreants by eroding the core constitutional right to publish all but the most obvious and blatant national security secrets. The government has to get better at keeping secrets. Muzzle the leakers - but not the press.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...05408.html