The governments of many countries, after the WikiLeaks website published powerful American classified documents, redoubled their efforts to establish greater control over information and the technology that enables their publication on the Internet, writes the Financial Times, as reported by MINA. Such a trend worries those who consider the Internet the highest. democratic force is beyond the reach of the government, the paper states. While China and other authoritarian regimes have long controlled access to information, they are now being joined by countries such as the United States, which is outraged by the recent release of American diplomatic cables on WikiLeaks. Experts warn that the emphasis on information security could pave the way for a greater presence of governments in cyberspace. Countries' motives and approaches differ. Although American politicians claim that they did not pressure companies to end their business ties with WikiLeaks, the administration's public threats to take legal action against the site and its founder Julian Assange certainly did not go unnoticed, according to the Financial Times.
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