The Wikileaks saga has transfixed the world, with politicians and punters alike stunned by the intriguing revelations from the leaked US embassy cables. At 6pm (AEDST) today Julian Assange, Wikileak’s founder, will speak via videolink to Australians at an event in Federation Square, Melbourne.

The man Sarah Palin said should be hunted as a terrorist and whose activities Julia Gillard pre-emptively judged as “illegal” is at the centre of the debate over freedom of speech. You can watch him speak on an internet video stream at 6pm here.

With only 4 days before Assange faces court on extradition charges, this could be one of the only chances to hear directly from the man at the centre of the Wikileaks controversy. So bookmark the page, set an alarm, and join us at 6pm tonight (Melbourne time):

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Another story, another Bill past restricting our internet access this time in the UK.

THE HOUSE OF LORDS has passed the controversial Digital Economy Bill, amendment inclusive, that imposes on Internet service providers (ISPs) the duty of enforcing copyright protection punishments on filesharing consumers – whether they like it or not.

Through this Bill ISPs will enforce sanctions on subscribers without the need for a court injunction, meaning you might see your broadband subscription messed up in any manner of ways, be it cancelled, capped, bottlenecked, shaped or simply slapped with a discretionary fine for your supposed galivanting. The original text didn’t even consider warning subscribers ahead of any ISP action or court injunction.

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