Academic Noam Chomsky and activist John Perry Barlow among the few public supporters of Julian Assange in the United States.
Debate in Australia on Wikileaks was largely signed to support Julian Assange with an open letter to the Prime Minister in his support of dozens of high profile Australian.USA academic Noam Chomsky says that in his country, however, "to articulate public opinion essentially calls for blood '."
"If you get your hands on Assange you could probably want it drawn and quartered would", he says.
It should surprise no one that Prof. Chomsky does not share this view.
He says the left academic much time spent, a lot of time reading released documents and confidentiality is usually 'protection of Government against its own people'.
While accepting that there are cases where secrecy in the public interest, he says, "I think that the burden of proof is on the power systems that want to keep their citizens in the dark".
"What is at stake, whether a country's citizens have a right to know what your Government is," he says.
John Perry Barlow is among those in the United States are supporting Wikileaks.
He is a co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization, the ' try keeping the Internet open, free flow of ideas, even if you are unpopular ' dedicated.
"We believe that the Internet is a day to give to everyone the right to know," he says.
Wikileaks are the EFF support, "try to ensure that we organize much mirror sites, backup, donations for you and generally do is everything we can to see that Wikileaks assailable by the methods previously used against it".
John Perry Barlow makes it clear that the EFF are not part of the backlash against companies such as MasterCard, Visa, and PayPal, services to Wikileaks suspended.
'Hacktivist' group anonymous have started to cyber attacks aimed at the websites of finance companies who refuse to take down to community grants of Wikileaks provide.
Coldblood, a representative of anonymous, the ABC to the program said, says firm, as have such as MasterCard was geared, company show that "it is not just the user it is Governments need to keep happy - as you need to keep happy".
"Operation payback is a way to highlight the company if you bow Government, you will be by their users of their services, the effects", says Coldblood.
Anonymous launched barrages data on websites of companies to down, bring a technique known as distributed denial of service and one that supports the EFF.
"I wish I, that could support", says John Perry Barlow, "because I delighted to see the zeal of a cyberspace rebels that am so easily organized without leadership."
"I will advise you [anonymous] would shut down against everything", he says. "The network is about open."
While the battle on wikileaks for cyber activists is a struggle for the freedom of the Internet, it's not about the technology for Noam Chomsky.
"The Internet has certainly plenty to the dissemination of information," says Prof. Chomsky, "but when the press did his job that would become known to most of these things."
Noam Chomsky and John Perry Barlow spoke with Jon Faine over 774 ABC Melbourne mornings.
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