Wikileaks.org under injunction

[Sapiens]

I find this case interesting, since banks are scattering like cockroaches under bright lights.

http://88.80.13.160/wiki/Wikileaks.org_under_injunction

Wikileaks Press Release

WIKILEAKS.ORG DOWN AFTER EX-PARTE LEGAL ATTACK BY CAYMAN ISLANDS BANK

http://wikileaks.be/wiki/Wikileaks.org_under_injunction

Contacts: http://wikileaks.be/wiki/Contact

Mon Feb 18 00:00:00 GMT 2008

The following release has not been proofed due to time constraints.

Transparency group Wikileaks forcibly censored at ex-parte Californian hearing -- ordered to print blank pages -- 'wikileaks.org' name forcibly deleted from Californian domain registrar -- the best justice Cayman Islands money launderers can buy?

When the transparency group Wikileaks was censored in China last year, no-one was too surprised. After all, the Chinese government also censors the Paris based Reporters Sans Frontiers and New York Based Human Rights Watch. And when Wikileaks published the secret censorship lists of Thailand's military Junta, no-one was too surprised when people in that country had to go to extra lengths to read the site. But on Friday the 15th, February 2008, in the home of the free and the land of the brave, and a constitution which states "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press", the Wikileaks.org press was shutdown:

[Jim Nickerson]

Re: Wikileaks.org under injunction

I find this case interesting, since banks are scattering like cockroaches under bright lights.

http://88.80.13.160/wiki/Wikileaks.org_under_injunction

Sapiens, what do you think is the ultimate meaning of this?

[Sapiens]

Re: Wikileaks.org under injunction

Sapiens, what do you think is the ultimate meaning of this?

Jim, I view this as a trial run on things to come. Censorship is getting harder to practice for those that wish to conceal their actions.

-Sapiens

[Jim Nickerson]

Re: Wikileaks.org under injunction

Jim, I view this as a trial run on things to come. Censorship is getting harder to practice for those that wish to conceal their actions.

-Sapiens

Sapiens, you confound me. It seems to me that censorship would be getting easier for those wishing to conceal their actions, e.g. in this case an apparent "openness" organization Wikileaks is being shut down, and apparently done so by the actions of a Caymans bank.

Don't worry after some years wikileaks will get opened up by the Supreme Count, until then we shall just wallow in greater ignorance.

[WDCRob]

Re: Wikileaks.org under injunction

Jim, that website has been replicated in several other places around the world. They can shut down the servers in the US, but getting rid of the information would require shutting down the Internet, or at the very least imposing nationwide filters on content.