Why Wikileaks & Assange have won this round

Ian Welsh writes:
"..The odd thing about Wikileaks is that their success has been assured, not by what they leaked, though there is some important information there, but by their enemies.
The massive and indiscriminant overreaction by both government and powerful corporate actors has ensured this, and includes but is not nearly limited to:

Shutting down Wikileaks servers, starting with the Amazon server
Stopping domain name server propagation
Paypal refusing to send payments
VISA and Mastercard refusing to process payments
The Swiss Bank PostFinance shutting down Assange’s account
Senator Lieberman pressuring firms over Wikileaks

The odd behavior of prosecutors in the Assange rape accusations/case

Wikileaks and Assange have now been made in to cause celebres. If corporations and governments can destroy someone’s access to the modern economy as they have Wikileaks, without even pretending due process of the law (Paypal, VISA, Mastercard, Amazon, etc… were not ordered by any court to cut Wikileaks) then we simply do not live in a free society of law, let alone a society of justice...."