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Data has a habit of spreading. It slips past military security and it can also leak from WikiLeaks. It even slipped past the ban

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问题     Data has a habit of spreading. It slips past military security and it can also leak from WikiLeaks. It even slipped past the bans of the Guardian and other media organisations involved in this story when a rogue copy of Der Spiegel accidentally went on sale in Basle, Switzerland. Someone bought it, realised what they had, and began scanning the pages, translating them from German to English and posting up-dates on Twitter. It would seem digital data respects no authority, be it the Pentagon, WikiLeaks or a newspaper editor.
    Individually, we have all already experienced the massive changes resulting from digitisation. Events or information that we once considered momentary and private are now accumulated, permanent, public. Governments hold our personal data in huge databases. It used to cost money to disclose and distribute information. In the digital age it costs money not to.
    But when data breaches happen to the public, politicians don’t care much. Our privacy is expendable. It is no surprise that the reaction to these leaks is different. What has changed the dynamic of power in a revolutionary way isn’ t just the scale of the databases being kept, but that individuals can upload a copy and present it to the world.
    To some this marks a crisis, to others an opportunity. Technology is breaking down traditional social barriers of status, class, power, wealth and geography—replacing them with an ethos of collaboration and transparency.
    Leaks are not the problem; they are the symptom. They reveal a disconnect between what people want and need to know and what they actually do know. The greater the secrecy, the more likely a leak. The way to move beyond leaks is to ensure a strong managing system for the public to access important information.
    We are at a key moment where the visionaries in the leading position of a global digital age are clashing with those who are desperate to control what we know. WikiLeaks is the guerrilla front in a global movement for greater transparency and participation. It used to be that a leader controlled citizens by controlling information. Now it’ s harder than ever for the powerful to control what people read, see and hear. Technology gives people the ability to band together and challenge authority. The powerful have long spied on citizens as a means of control, now citizens are turning their collected eyes back upon the powerful.
    This is a revolution, and all revolutions create fear and uncertainty. Will we move to a New Information Enlightenment or will the strong resistance from those who seek to maintain control no matter the cost lead us to a new totalitarianism ? What happens in the next five years will define the future of democracy for the next century, so it would be well if our leaders responded to the current challenge with an eye on the nature.
In a global digital age, citizens are clashing with politicians on
选项 A、the control over information.
B、the mastery of technology.
C、the participation of political activities.
D、the supervision of media content.
答案A
解析 细节题。第六段前两句表明，维基解密事件只是数字时代的公民与政治家们之间斗争的序曲。该段第三句至末句详细说明他们的斗争内容：以往当权者通过控制信息来控制公民：而数字时代技术手段赋予公民控制信息的能力，公民利用这种能力监视当权者。由此可见．公民和政治家们的冲突在对信息的控制上，A项正确。由上述分析可知，“技术”是公民得以与当权者对抗的手段，而不是他们对抗的主题，B项错误。C项属捕风捉影，利用文中词汇participation捏造选项。D项过度引申，第六段第四句只是说，当权者对媒体内容的控制出现困难，无法由此推出公民与政治家在媒体内容的监管上发生冲突。
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