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Feb 18 2008
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activism, censorship
• commondreams.org
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US Court takes whistle-blower website offline.
entirely from the page (BBC) -
"A website that allows
whistle-blowers to anonymously post
government and corporate documents
has been ordered offline by a US Court.
"Wikileaks.org, as it is known,
was cut off from the internet following
a California court ruling, the site says."
"The case was brought by a Swiss bank
after "several hundred" documents were posted
about its offshore money laundering activities
in the Caymen Islands."
"Other versions of the pages, hosted in countries
such as Belgium and India, can still be accessed."
"The case was brought by lawyers working for the Swiss banking group
Julius Baer. It concerned several documents posted on the site which
allegedly reveal that the bank was involved with money laundering and
tax evasion."
"The documents were allegedly posted by Rudolf Elmer,
former vice president of the bank's Cayman Island's operation."
"The site was founded in 2006 by dissidents, journalists,
mathematicians and technologists from the US, Taiwan,
Europe, Australia and South Africa."
"It so far claims to have published more than 1.2 million documents."
"It recently made available a confidential briefing document
relating to the collapse of the UK's Northern Rock bank."
"Lawyers working on behalf of the bank attempted to have
the documents removed from the site. They can still be accessed."
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