It's all very worrying, but totally unsurprising now enough time's passed for WikiLeaks to no longer be in the public imagination. It is very sad that Assange has to be the fall guy though. There's a small chance the Supreme Court won't extradite him.

Maybe a small comfort is that this has got old school state thinking written all over it - a bit like when the police struggle to comprehend that no one's really in charge of an anarchist protest -

If Wikileaks was on a blockchain, which is the way things are going, wouldn't it be nearly impossible to shut it down or prosecute anyone?