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Brazil: WikiLeaks and the “Electronic Intifada”

Categories: Latin America, Brazil, International Relations, Literature, Media & Journalism, Politics, Technology

Idelber Avelar, from the blog Biscoito Fino, suggests [1][pt] that Orwell's 1984 [2]is one of the best literary models to understand WikiLeaks’ global surveillance, comparing it with a two-way “Electronic Intifada [3]“, and calls Julian Assange [4] as the “First Global Political Prisioner of the Internet”.