Orwell has this great line, “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations."<p>So the promise of the early internet was to allow anyone to publish without permission.<p>This was a particular goal of the cypherpunk movement that Assange came out of.<p>WikiLeaks is an extreme example of "printing what someone else does not want printed", worth watching as a canary for press freedom.<p>I also see it as an unsolved technology issue. Our infrastructure for censorship resistant publishing, eg for whistleblowers, shouldn't be a plain old website, run by a few people like Assange taking unreasonable personal risks.