Despite the money machine Wikileaks has become for the thousands exploiting its product and notoriety, it deserves maximum support in ways that help avoid dependency upon rigged markets and leveraged endorsements. In comparison to the braggardy and IP theft of secrecy-protected 1% MSM, governments and corporations hiding behind branded Representative Democracy, WL -- and its kind -- are genuinely supportive of direct democracy. Individual support for these initiatives is crucial to avoid the trap of 1% funding which has enlisted millions with sinecure indulgences from gov, mil and edu -- not least those of the hypnotic debt-swap easy loan of the Internet which allows siphoning personal information without limit, TOR one of many indulgences. Hopefully WL will not be revealed to be one of those goodwill industries. The disclosed legal expenses for Assange which appear to soon outweigh WL operating costs do not augur well for the initiative remaining unfettered democratic. No explanation of why the legal costs are not donated -- unless they are being used to launder money in the same old practice of claiming "expenses" used by the 1%. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE