Court orders Wikileaks be taken offline

[newbie2]

Whistle-blower Web site Wikileaks.org has been effectively ordered offline by a California court. Last week, the court ordered domain name registrar Dynadot to remove all DNS entries for that domain. According to a story by the BBC, Dynadot was also ordered to "prevent the domain name from resolving to the wikileaks.org website or any other website or server other than a blank park page, until further order of this Court." Swiss banking group Julius Baer Bank and documents surrounding its offshore activities are at the center of the controversy. The Wikileaks.org site is still available here.

Read the full BBC story: "Whistle-blower site taken offline"

http://www.news.com/8301-9373_3-9874114-55.html

The contested documents remain available on Wikileaks websites hosted in other countries, including in here in Belgium and here in India. The site says here that over the past few days it has also withstood a 500 Mbps denial-of-service attack and a fire to its uninterruptible power supply.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/19/wikileaks_shut_down_in_us/
:rolleyes:

[hyper_ch]

I think it's a pity that the court has ordered this.

[deadowl]

A new Anon target perhaps?

[hkgonra]

Never heard of it before.
What exactly is it ?

[cprofitt]

http://www.news.com/8301-9373_3-9874114-55.html

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/19/wikileaks_shut_down_in_us/
:rolleyes:

Got the IP address for the non-US sites - I would love to read the docs that this is all about.

[forrestcupp]

According to this article (http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3663) the judge is backing off, somewhat. He is going to let them keep the web site, but remove those docs.

[blithen]

To the users who are like "WTF is Wikileaks"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks
Happy birthday.
And if you don't celebrate your birthday...happy tuesday. >_>

[SunnyRabbiera]

Yeh this is a move against free speech pretty much, though that matters nothing to the rotten conservatives in this nation.

[cprofitt]

As a side note -- the UK article lists several alternate DNS names to access the content. This injunction troubles me because is shows the judge in this case to be clueless when it comes to the freedom of speech and the press. I worry that too often protections that are taken for granted in print/radio/tv are not being extended to the web.

I make no judgment as to who is right or wrong in this case, but given the facts I find it hard to believe that a PERMANENT injunction was granted by a Federal judge.

[SunnyRabbiera]

Yeh seems that way, its stupid.

[phrostbyte]

There is clearly some organized crime and government corruption around this. Money laundering is a big business with very large political bribery to keep it hush hush.

[cprofitt]

There is clearly some organized crime and government corruption around this. Money laundering is a big business with very large political bribery to keep it hush hush.

So you think Obama is using this site and his campaign will be destroyed if the Terminator finds out the truth?

:)

[billgoldberg]

The mirros can't be taken offline:

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