Zizek on Wikileaks

There has been, from the outset, something about its (Wikileaks) actions that goes beyond liberal conceptions of the free flow of information. We shouldn't look for this excess at the level of content. The only surprising thing about the Wikileaks revelations is that they contain no surprises. Didn't we learn exactly what we expected to learn? The real disturbance was at the level of appearances: we can no longer pretend we don't know what everyone knows we know. This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything.