[IMC-Video] Wikileaks releases over 120 videos and photos from Tibet uprising

[Jon Sullivan]

[ Hi imc-videoistas!  There may be copyright issues with some of these, 
but overall an interesting set of material.  Onward!  -j ]

WIKILEAKS RELEASES OVER 120 CENSORED VIDEOS AND PHOTOS OF THE TIBET UPRISING
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Wikileaks_releases_over_120_censored_videos_and_photos_of_the_Tibet_uprising

Wikileaks Press Release
Tuesday March 18, 2008

Today Wikileaks released over 120 censored photos and videos of the 
Tibet uprising and has called on bloggers around the world to help drive 
the footage through the Chinese internet censorship regime -- the so 
called "Great Firewall of China".

The transparency group's move comes as a response to the the Chinese 
Public Security Bureau's carte-blanche censorship of youtube, the BBC, 
CNN, the Guardian and other sites carrying video footage of the Tibetan 
people's recent heroic stand against the inhumane Chinese occupation of 
Tibet.

Wikileaks has also placed the collection in two easy to use archives 
together with a HTML index page so they may be easily copied, placed on 
websites, emailed across the internet as attachments and uploaded to 
peer to peer networks.

Censorship, like communism, seems like a reasonable enough idea to begin 
with. While 'from each according to his ability and to each according to 
his need' sounds unarguable, the world has learned that these words call 
forth a power elite to administer them with coercive force. Such elites 
are quick to define the needs of their own members as paramount. 
Similarly 'from each mouth according to its ability and to each ear 
according to its need' seems harmless enough, but history shows that 
censorship also requires an anointed class to define this "need" and to 
make violence against those who continue talking. Such power is quickly 
corrupted.

The first ingredient of civil society is the people's right to know, 
because without such understanding no human being can meaningfully 
choose to support anything, let alone a political party. Knowledge is 
the driver of every political process, every constitution, every law and 
every regulation. The communication of knowledge is without salient 
analogue. It is living, unique and demands its rightful place at the 
summit of society. Since knowledge is the creator and regulator of all 
law, its position beyond law commands due respect.

James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and other Enlightenment framers of the 
US Bill of Rights understood this well when they began the First 
Amendment's constitutional protections of speech and of the press with 
'Congress shall make no law....'.

As knowledge flows across the world it is time to sum great freedoms of 
every nation and not subtract or divide them. Let us then unite in 
common purpose for the surest way to protect the freedoms of any nation 
is to protect the freedoms of every nation.
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