One-third of the world’s population is now online. As we are seeing in the Middle East, this fact is changing global politics. An information revolution is shifting power away from states. US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has called for “a serious conversation about the principles that will guide us” in such a world. She says she backs the “freedom to connect” for people everywhere, and calls on others in the Middle East and Asia to follow. But if she believes this, why is the US trying to prosecute WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange?
如今世界三分之一的人口都已连入互联网。正如中东事件所显示的那样，这个事实正在改变manbetx app苹果 政治。一场信息革命正在从政府手中夺走权力。美国国务卿希拉里•克林顿(Hillary Rodham Clinton)呼吁，就将在这样一个世界中“对我们起到引导作用的原则展开一次严肃的对话”。她说，她支持世界各地人民享有“连接的自由”，并呼吁中东及亚洲相关人士也效仿她的做法。但如果她信仰自由，为何美国还在试图起诉维基解密(WikiLeaks)创始人朱利安•阿桑奇(Julian Assange)？