In terms of the media and the general public there may be a sense that the WikiLeaks scandal has died down. This though is not the case for U.S officials.
Still reeling from Assange's 'political dynamite' you can rest assured that the best lawyers in the U.S are trying whatever they can to take out the man himself and all that he stands for.
The latest twist in the tale is the recent news that U.S. investigators have gone to court to demand the details of WikiLeaks’ Twitter account as part of the criminal case which Washington is trying to build against the whistle-blowing website.
Julian Assange is well aware of the U.S's questionable tactics and he believes that
other American based Internet companies such as Facebook and Google may also have been ordered to divulge information about him and his colleagues.
As it stands at the moment, a U.S court have issued subpoena ordering Twitter Inc. to hand over private messages, billing information, telephone numbers and connection records of accounts run by Assange and others.
It's a terrifying thought that the authorities can demand the likes of Twitter hand over peoples personal information, and if Twitter bow to the legal pressure (which they probably will) we'll be seeing 1984 in action. It starts with "criminals" (i.e. dangers to the New World Order) and ends with all of us.
Obviously Assange himself is appalled by the tactics of America.
“If the Iranian government was to attempt to coercively obtain this information from journalists and activists of foreign nations, human rights groups around the world would speak out,” he said in a statement.
Too right he is too. Let's hope Human Rights groups do take notice of this.
And finally, as you all knew it was going to end. Twitter has declined to comment on the topic, saying only that its policy is to notify its users, where possible, of government requests for information.
Well that's not very helpful is it.
'Hello, this is Twitter. As a valued customer we feel it is important that we let you know we have given all your information to the state because they kept yelling at us."
Source: Salon