In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
Basic democratic principles and the rule of law are enshrined in modern legal systems and international law as well. Everyone even the state is accountable to laws and to citizens.
Internet as media is noble competence to all other media because it is yet free area which can be encoded and virtually be unbreakable in the flow of information. Various advanced technologies are securing this virtually free area to exist and to be resistible to various kinds of pressure. WikiLeaks as non profit media organization is using those tools as powerful instrument for freedom of information, transparency and accountability. Julian Assange is confirming McLuhan’s vision that in the global village the medium is the message.
The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium – that is, of any extension of ourselves – result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.
In its very first session the UN Generally Assembly adopted Resolution 59 (I) stating
Freedom of information is a fundamental human right and is the touchstone of all the freedoms to which the United Nations is consecrated;
Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is ensuring that
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
At the very end let us say that we are witnesses of reshaping the power on global level bearing in mind that Law is above All.