Assange warns of Information Apartheid & Encompassing State: “This is the Last Free Generation”

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http://www.juancole.com/2013/12/information-encompassing-generation.html

Assange warns of Information Apartheid & Encompassing State: “This is the Last Free Generation”
By Juan Cole | Dec. 30, 2013

“This is the last free generation… The coming together of the systems of government and the information apartheid is such that none of us will be able to escape it in just a decade.” . . . “We are all becoming part of this state whether we like it or not . . . Our only hope is to help determine what kind of state we will be a part of.”

Assange called on systems administrators to attempt to foil government spying and to volunteer to penetrate security agencies and out their covert practices.

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In the interview, Assange argues that powerful media are inextricably intertwined with government power, on which they profess to report critically. They are constrained from doing so however, since they require access to power in order to report.

He further outlined a generational struggle now being fought out in cyberspace between the 15-35-year-olds, for whom government intrusion is unacceptable, and the baby boomers and their elders, who for the most part acquiesce in this government power and information-grab.