"Excellent post. It's become clear this year that some websites - Google and Facebook for sure - are taking on many of the attributes of sovereign nations. Google's confrontation with China was just an early indicator of how even large, powerful governments will have to tread carefully. I'm not at all convinced that blanket releases of huge, classified datasets is a good thing. On the other hand, Assange talks about Wikileaks' curatorial role, and that seems key. As a site for careful, limited, responsible publishing of whistleblowers' revelations, where there is a clear and compelling purpose to shining the light on something, it may well be beneficial." - Gordon Vaughan