As I mentioned before, I worry about the normalization of the willy-nilly dissemination of leaked information and the way that data can be used to frame public opinion and potentially destroy a person. So I was happy to see the way Larry Lessig responded when he was presented with highly negative emails that were written about him, and then shared via WikiLeaks: “I’m a big believer in leaks for the public interest. That’s why I support Snowden, and why I believe the President should pardon him. But I can’t for the life of me see the public good in a leak like this — at least one that reveals no crime or violation of any important public policy. We all deserve privacy. The burdens of public service are insane enough without the perpetual threat that every thought shared with a friend becomes Twitter fodder.”

+ Marco Rubio made a related point: “As our intelligence agencies have said, these leaks are an effort by a foreign government to interfere with our electoral process, and I will not indulge it. Further, I want to warn my fellow Republicans who may want to capitalize politically on these leaks: Today it is the Democrats. Tomorrow it could be us.”

+ WaPo: Ecuador cuts off Internet access for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. (Dear Julian, your internet provider will be out to fix the problem between 2:00 and 4:00pm on November 9th…)