"I see that there is now a militarization of cyberspace, in the sense of a military occupation. When you communicate over the internet, when you communicate using mobile phones, which are now meshed to the internet
your communications are being intercepted by military intelligence organizations. It's like having a tank in
your bedroom. It's a soldier between you and your wife as you're SMSing. We are all living under martial law
as far as our communications are concerned, we just can't see the tanks - but they are there. To that degree,
the internet, which was supposed to be a civilian space, has become a militarized space. But the internet is our
space, because we all use it to communicate with each other and with the members of our family. The communications at the inner core of our private lives now move over the internet. So in fact our private lives have
entered into a militarized zone. It is like having a soldier under the bed. This is a militarization of civilian life.
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Julian Assange
Julian Assange
