By: Pershkina Anastasiya, The WikiLeaks web site, which appeared in 2010,
became one of the main sources of scandal in 2011. In some countries its work resulted in the harsh resistance of government organisations which tried to establish control over the Internet and prevent the appearance of similar projects. Court proceedings against the founder of the WikiLeaks and the main informer of the web site caused a sharp and ambiguous response from the public.Experts say that the appearance of WikiLeaks became an important landmark in the history of today’s Internet. Both ordinary users and the authorities started seeing the Internet as an effective instrument of forming public opinion, rather than just a gaming, communication and information resource. With the appearance of WikiLeaks and similar web sites, freedom stopped being the only main characteristic feature of the world net; now it is accompanied by “the truth”, the business development director of the Grotek company Alexander Vlasov believes. Tags:
Politics,
Bradley Manning,
Julian Assange ,
Commentary,
Wikileaks,
World,
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