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 saltwatermatt rated 9 months agopolitics, money-laundering, usa, domain-name, cayman-islands - Cayman Island banking interests appear convince USA judge to issue injunction taking down wikileaks US domain. All seems quite cosy. Freedom of speech (whatever that may be) appears a little chilled...
Fantastic summary of Cayman Island banking law, or the lack of it. Read a little further to stumble upon some other interesting connections...
- stevedtrm rated 10 months agopolitics
- More on US fascism. Burn those books.
- AtlasEndures rated 10 months agopolitics
- that's some shit
- kayell rated 10 months agointernet, politics, wiki, censorship, republicans
- Thankfully, Wikileaks is backed up at a number of sites around the globe and so still available for now. This is outrageous censorship. The best possible outcome though may be the increased traffic to the site to see what has the repugs in such a tizzy.
Transparency group Wikileaks forcibly censored at ex-parte Californian hearing -- ordered to print blank pages -- 'wikileaks.org' name forcibly deleted from Californian domain registrar -- the best justice Cayman Islands money launderers can buy? When the transparency group Wikileaks was censored in China last year, no-one was too surprised. After all, the Chinese government also censors the Paris based Reporters Sans Frontiers and New York Based Human Rights Watch. And when Wikileaks published the secret censorship lists of Thailand's military Junta, no-one was too surprised when people in that country had to go to extra lengths to read the site. But on Friday the 15th, February 2008, in the home of the free and the land of the brave, and a constitution which states "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press", the Wikileaks.org press was shutdown:
- anneliese rated 10 months agopolitics
- Outrageous behavior by a bush appointed judge. The Internet will route around this and Wikileaks will probably grow because of this attack by a court.
I wonder if the judge has ever heard of the First Amendment.
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