This morning on NPR, Clay Shirky highlighted an interesting doublespeak concerning the united states’ stance on freedom v. security. Obama pressures Egyptian president Mubarak on the importance of affording information access to Egyptians, but U.S wasn’t so keen on this same standard in the wake of wikileaks. Shirky raises interesting question applying the U.S. standard of cybersecurity trumping freedom of access from noting that from Mubarak’s point of view: “Might not Egypt’s Mubarak have argued that his government faced a “cyber-emergency” — a political one, perhaps, but still a cyber-emergency?”
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