The US Administration appears the most hurt by the acts of the Wikileaks.
Diplomatically, it has ordered the governments of the developing countries to prevent any further leakage of bilateral secrecy (between the US and the concerned countries).
Technologically, it has been doing what it is up to in order to furtively disrupt the information flow and their online channels. The ISPs in the developing nations, where several US-trained technocrats work, seem to be lured to serve US interest as they manipulate the Internet speed and quality to a higher extent.
Economically, the US Administration would not hesitate to spend any amount of money in order to suppress the present embarrassing conditions arising from the leakage of secret documents by the Wikileaks. Besides, online monetary transactions dealing with the Wikileaks have been disrupted as part of an economic retort.
The US Administration has already declared that what the Wikileaks has been doing is totally against the US constitution and laws. However, Julian Assange, the founder of the Wikileaks, has been arrested not on the basis of the US laws but on the basis of a vague accusation related to a faint dispute within a sexual relationship.
Interpretations of press freedom and varying motives behind it
Even without Wikileaks or some other similar campaigns in the past, peoples of the world knew to a greater extent that the governments did not function in a morally and diplomatically compatible manner. Ordinary suffering masses have experienced their plight brought about by the ruling classes concentrated on their own privileged interests. The ruling elites of the world never count the working class peoples as dignified and decision-making human beings. They think the working class peoples are meant to become mere voters and followers of political parties. This low-cultured viewpoint can be easily traced even among the most gigantic democracies in the world. The global and local mass media are not free from prejudiced mentality regarding what the press freedom means and how it ought to be used.
But the majority of the world peoples stand for the use of press freedom for public wellbeing. They feel frustrated as they see the press freedom being used mostly for the ruling class and political elites. In fact, it is the will of the world's peoples that the press freedom be used to serve the public interests rather than merely the interests of the rulers.
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