Wikileaks Shut Down by U.S. Court »
Posted By TechnologyExpert 7 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & TechnologyWikileaks was started with the intention of allowing whistleblowers to anonymously release government and corporate documents, "an uncensorable version of Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis. Of course, that only works if the site is reachable.
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Dionys7 months, 3 weeks ago
Someone needs to start up WikiLeaks again in Denmark or some such place on a server hidden by some random person then moved by another random person.
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djrevelky7 months, 3 weeks ago
Actually, this dictatorship in the White House created a law that allows whistleblowers on fraud of government agencies to recover 10% of the money the government lost by fraud.
This was blocked because GOVERNMENT documents are being leaked to the public. THE END.
Stop your conspiracy theories, especially when they contradict common sense, truth, and the law.
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earthlingerer7 months, 3 weeks ago
Read the story. This was blocked because of a court case involving money laundering.
It will be back up, that's for sure.
Maybe in a better form, in a better place.
Those GOVERNMENT documents belong to the public! THE END.
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jaspersneed7 months, 3 weeks ago
"This was blocked because GOVERNMENT documents are being leaked to the public. THE END."
It seems no small irony that despite the severe degree of ignorance undergirding your apparently fascist sensibilities, your singular observation on this matter actually is pointedly and perfectly correct: The site WAS blocked because government documents were being leaked, and not at all because some shady Swiss banker didn't like the exposure he was getting -- an issue about which the Bush-appointed California judge hearing the case could not be less concerned. Right you are; it was the government -- specifically, for this particular Bush-tool-pseudo-jurist, OUR government -- that was in dire need of protection from "common sense, truth and the law".
Conspiracy theory? WHAT conspiracy theory?
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lohwengk7 months, 3 weeks ago
This has some very disturbing implications. To take an extreme example, if Microsoft wanted to, it could go to a district court to shut down or prevent access to its competitors' web-sites.
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jaspersneed7 months, 3 weeks ago
This story has been up on Propeller for 18 hours, is currently on the front page with 74 votes, yet has drawn TWO COMMENTS thus far. This is exactly how the dictatorship will erode the freedom of the internet -- one seemingly small court ruling at a time, with few even realizing the significance of what is happening, let alone reacting to it.
This is the most important story of the year. We had BETTER stay tuned.
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miklkit7 months, 3 weeks ago
California courts are generally less right wing leaning than in the rest of the country. This particular judge is a dumya appointee. You get what you vote for. Or diebold votes for.....
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GHOSTWHOWALKS7 months, 3 weeks ago
In a word NO but I've always hoped a judge would remember the blindfolded lady that stands outside. You know the one with scales.
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djn3nunez37 months, 3 weeks ago
According to the story the site has not been shut down and can still be reached by way of the IP Address.
http://88.80.13.160/wiki/Wikileaks
I suspect it is just a matter of time before they order the host to take the whole site down.
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jaspersneed7 months, 3 weeks ago
Then here's to hoping the host decides to give them the single-digit salute.
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joeblowe7 months, 3 weeks ago
This could turn out to be a third rail issue. Clearly, 1st Amendment rights are involved, as well as protections in the form of whistleblower protection laws. This idiot freaking judge could find his fingers scorched at some point. It doesn't surprise me even a little that these people who are helping to commit crimes are trying to keep the evidence off the net. Here again, I should think the whistleblower protection laws should protect these (Wikileaks) people. At least in this country. I don't know about Switzerland, the U.K, or the Cayman Islands. My suspicion is that those laws may be absent - at least in the Caymans where they pride themselves on helping people hide their assets. (Which, by the way, I usually have no problem with. Long as it isn't illegal or fraudulent somehow.) Far as I know, revealing evidence of criminal activity is NOT considered a violation of a confidentiality agreement.
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crespi7 months, 3 weeks ago
It's fraudulent if they don't give some of the money taken OUT of America BACK TO to America in the form of taxes.
Otherwise we are hemorrhaging money that goes OUTSIDE of our system (and never comes back), for no one else to use to stimulate our economy.
It's HOARDING. And a sign of greed.
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joeblowe7 months, 3 weeks ago
It would only be hoarding if someone took cash money and stuck it in a lock box. Depositing it in a bank - any bank, anywhere - would make it available to that bank's other customers as lendable funds. Thus helping SOMEONE'S economy. Interest EARNED on those deposits, NOT having been earned in the U.S. - would NOT, I expect, be TAXABLE by the U.S. Although they might be taxable by the host country.
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Muraha7 months, 3 weeks ago
Wikileaks will be the forum for the ethical defection and exposure of unaccountable and abusive power to the people.
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jordan117 months, 3 weeks ago
This action was centered around a Swiss banking group & their shenanigans. Fascinating. Why would a bush appointee (The Judge) be concerned about a Swiss banking group?
So I just spent 15 minutes looking around, & find that this group (Julius Baer) has a NY office. Clicking on links, I find they are underwritten by several investment funds. One that caught my eye, was the American Century Funds...of which there were several listed. Is there, I ask myself, a link between the American Century Funds & the Project for a New American Century? (PNAC). PNAC is a conservative group who wishes to bring corporatism to the forefront of the world's power. I know Cheney is a charter member of PNAC, & he had between 10-25 million invested in the American Century Funds.....I must say, we are in desperate need of investigative reporters to check up on things. After only 15 minutes, I'm ready for a nap.
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