I hope you are right but even knowing a fair amount about web technologies I am not certain that the Internet is technologically uncontrollable.
Deep packet inspection and the seizing of domain names are tools that authorities could use if they generally agreed on their goals. If Wikileaks' activities were considered out-and-out illegal and indefensible a-la child pornography, I'm doubtful we would see a lot of them.
So it seems to me that Wikileaks' activities are being protected by Western free speech traditions as much as by technological barriers.
And yet as bad as it is, CP isn't hard to find--it's just if you're found with it you're in huge trouble. The people found with CP aren't typically expert computer users...
Deep packet inspection and the seizing of domain names are tools that authorities could use if they generally agreed on their goals. If Wikileaks' activities were considered out-and-out illegal and indefensible a-la child pornography, I'm doubtful we would see a lot of them.
So it seems to me that Wikileaks' activities are being protected by Western free speech traditions as much as by technological barriers.