Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented. Here we have the world's most comprehensive database about people, their relationships, their names, their addresses, their locations and the communications with each other, their relatives, all sitting within the United States, all accessible to US intelligence. Facebook, Google, Yahoo.. all these major US organizations have built-in interfaces for US intelligence. It's not a matter of serving a subpoena. They have an interface that they have developed for US intelligence to use.

In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources safe, we have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions.

This generation is burning the mass media to the ground.

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

Those who are repeatedly passive in the face of injustice soon find their character corroded.

If you look at the history of the FBI, it has become effectively America's political police.

Which country is suffering from too much freedom of speech? Name it, is there one?