Wikileaks Shut Down - Totally Lame

Posted by Kevin on February 19th, 2008 2 Comments

As many now know and many will know soon, openness, democracy (and wikis) around the world were dealt a blow when Wikileaks.org was forced to shut down by a ruling issued by a federal judge in San Francisco. You can read the story in the New York Times but the basic gist is this:

Wikileaks allows anyone to contribute information and documentation that discourages nefarious behavior by companies and governments. The suit that shut the site down was brought by a bank residing in the Cayman Islands – home to sunny weather and secret bank accounts. The lawsuit in question involved allegedly stolen documents that revealed various trust structures that hid assets for tax evasion.

Wikileaks was started by journalists and Chinese dissidents and a host of others who wanted to develop “an uncensorable Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis.” We think that’s a pretty noble cause. As always, someone else explains the rationale for such a pursuit much better than I ever could – “Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.”

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WikiLeaks didn’t quite shutdown, only the DNS entry was suspended.

Luckily, there is a new domain name ready to take over:
https://wikileaks.be/

Reminds me of the famous line from Sneakers: “No more secrets…”

By Steve Bjorg on February 19th, 2008 at 5:43 pm

That’s very true. Wikileaks is still all over the globe.

By TroyJMorris on February 20th, 2008 at 9:54 am

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