When we talked in class about the question of whether WikiLeaks would make government more or less open, we did not know about this action by Amazon. However, it is interesting to note that the WikiLeaks crisis has forced open actions like this, making a big company like Amazon show how much it relies or is willing to bend to pressure from the government.
On a related issue, John Doyle speculates in this morning's Globe and Mail about the cancellation of a CBC TV show -- Intelligence -- and speculates that it may have had a political connection.
The context of the U.S. memo about Canadian TV is a pervasive U.S. worry, if not outright indignation, about how these shows “feed long-standing negative images of the U.S.” So who cancelled Intelligence? The CBC, the minority Conservative government or the U.S. embassy? Or all three?
from John Doyle The Globe and Mail
