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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>It’s not really “the Internet” per se Assange is talking about, but the whole panoply of information processing technology once it becomes wedded to networking. One doesn’t need TCP/IP at all to do a lot of surveillance. And I think visions of total dystopia and domination are often as unrealistic as ones of utopian perfection. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div style='margin-bottom:18.75pt;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-origin: initial;background-clip: initial;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:#AD993E'><span class=white><span style='font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";letter-spacing:3.75pt;background:white'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='border:none;border-right:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 4.0pt 0in 0in;min-height: 400px;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-origin: initial;background-clip: initial;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial;float:left'><div style='margin-bottom:22.5pt;max-width: 250px;float:left'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/"><span style='color:#AD993E;text-decoration:none'>The Guardian</span></a> / <em><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>By</span></em> <em><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><a href="http://www.alternet.org/authors/12391/" title="View all stories by Patrick Kingsley"><span style='color:#AD993E;text-decoration:none'>Patrick Kingsley</span></a></span></em><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><img border=0 id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://images.alternet.org/images/site/talk_box_world.jpg" alt="comments_image"><span class=small> <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/150265/assange%3A_the_internet_could_create_a_%22totalitarian_spying_regime%22?akid=6668.22219.xDa9hL&rd=1&t=6#disqus_thread"><b><span style='font-size:7.0pt;color:#AD993E;text-decoration:none'>18 COMMENTS</span></b></a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";font-weight:normal'>Assange: The Internet Could Create a "Totalitarian Spying Regime"<o:p></o:p></span></h1></div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;margin-bottom:20.25pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><i><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Assange said the web could allow greater government transparency, but also gave authorities their best ever opportunity to monitor and catch dissidents.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p></div><div id="the_body"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:4.5pt;line-height:18.75pt;background:white'><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>March 15, 2011</span></em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'> | <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>