Guest spectr Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iDWyWp3GfGD4juECC5_zs64xphOQD8UTLNH02 Web Site 'Wikileaks' Shuttered Over Post By PAUL ELIAS – 4 hours ago SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge has set off a free speech tempest after shutting down a U.S. Web site for posting internal documents accusing a Cayman Islands' bank branch of money laundering and tax evasion schemes. The Bank Julius Baer & Co. said in papers filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco that a disgruntled executive fired for "misconduct" stole the documents and illegally posted them on http://wikileaks.org. The bank also said a number of the documents have been altered, but it didn't provide details. The site claims to have posted 1.2 million leaked government and corporate documents that it says expose unethical behavior, including a 2003 operation manual for the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The bank, based in Zurich, sued Wikileaks and its San Mateo hosting company Dynadot on Feb. 6, alleging the Web site had posted stolen and confidential financial data. On Thursday, Dynadot agreed to shut down the site and bar Wikileaks from transferring the domain name to another host. U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey White issued a formal ruling the next day. Dynadot officials didn't return telephone calls Tuesday. "This is akin to seizing all the copies of the New York Times, locking the doors and ordering the landlords not to let anyone back in the building," said Julie Turner, a Palo Alto Internet attorney who briefly represented Wikileaks, but not during last week's hearing in front of White. Wikileaks was not represented at that hearing. Wikileaks said in a statement that shutting down the entire Web site — instead of narrowly ordering the removal of the disputed materials — amounts to unconstitutional "prior restraint" by the government of an entire publishing organization. Wikileaks vowed to continue publishing the bank's documents on its other Web sites hosted by companies outside the United States. Wikileaks' Web site says it was launched by Chinese dissidents, journalists and others, but it's unclear where the organization is based. "The order is clearly unconstitutional and exceeds its jurisdiction," Wikileaks spokesman Julian Assange said in the e-mail statement issued from Paris on Monday. "Wikileaks will keep on publishing. In fact, given the level of suppression involved in this case, Wikileaks will step up publication of documents pertaining to illegal or unethical banking practices." David Ardia, an Internet speech expert at Harvard Law School, said a court has never before ordered an entire Web site shut down over a document dispute. He said it struck a nerve. "This is a prior restraint in the most extreme fashion," Ardia said. "This is a judge who doesn't have a good understanding of the Internet." The judge has scheduled more arguments on the issue for Feb. 29. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ this is just fucked up, seriously fucked up. It makes you wonder what is going to come next, and how long until we have are net access censored like they do in other countries.. This is an direct attack on freedom of speech and the sad part is most people will never even know about it.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LIVERWURST* Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Amazing. Got any of the other links? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Dumielle Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 Yea, I was looking for the sister sites too. Let us know if you come across them, that's some big brother shit right there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blood Feast Island Man Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 so anybody got a link for the guantanamo bay operation manual? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M_I Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 http://www.SUNSHINEPRESS.org save whatever you need/want before it gets shutdown too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M_I Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 BLOOD FEAST- https://wikileaks.cx/wiki/Changes_in_Guantanamo_Bay_SOP_manual_%282003-2004%29 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blood Feast Island Man Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ nice one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spectr Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 this is seriously fucked up shit.. with shit like this and corporations trying to kill net neutrality the internet could end as we know it in a matter of a few years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spectr Posted February 20, 2008 Share Posted February 20, 2008 more on this from the bbc http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7250916.stm "A document signed by Judge Jeffery White, who presided over the case, ordered Dynadot to follow six court orders. As well as removing all records of the site form its servers, the hosting and domain name firm was ordered to produce "all prior or previous administrative and account records and data for the wikileaks.org domain name and account". The order also demanded that details of the site's registrant, contacts, payment records and "IP addresses and associated data used by any person...who accessed the account for the domain name" to be handed over." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M_I Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 yo lemme get some props foo! on a more serious note, this is def. fucked up....like i said b4 save what you need before the mirror sites go down.... and i use a proxy when visiting there just in case.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spectr Posted February 21, 2008 Share Posted February 21, 2008 actually the whole site is available for download from quite a few places, so they can try to take down as many mirrors as possible, but the more they take them down, the more they will pop up... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest spectr Posted February 22, 2008 Share Posted February 22, 2008 http://www.binaryfreedom.info/node/312 check this site out for updated info and a list of mirrors.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R@ndomH3ro Posted February 28, 2008 Share Posted February 28, 2008 HAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!! TAKE THAT FAGGOTS!!!!!!!! I WINZ!!!!!!1111 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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