Posted on 03/01/2008 7:14:55 PM PST by Dada Orwell
The Barbara Streisand Effect goes into full swing as Fed ruling turns obscure whistleblower site into overnight sensation.
It is a secret.
Translation-a website like wikipedia was made for people to post whistleblower information. Some real inside stuff was being leaked there so the government tried to shut it down. Their attempt failed and now even more people know about the site.
The site is not available to my computer. Can anyone else get to it?
I got a warning from my anti-virus software.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-wikileaks1mar01,1,7436746.story
Los Angeles Times
By Henry Weinstein, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
March 1, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO — — Saying he may have violated free speech rights, a federal judge reversed field Friday and lifted an injunction that had effectively shut down a website that publishes documents alleging corporate and government misdeeds.
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White ruled in response to a flurry of motions filed by a coalition of media and public interest organizations that urged him to reconsider orders he issued in mid-February against Wikileaks.org and Dynadot of San Mateo, Wikileaks’ domain name registrar.
The judge acknowledged in court Friday that there were serious questions about whether his original order represented a “possible violation of the 1st Amendment.” White said he was making no definitive finding on that issue now.
Later in the day, the judge issued a formal written ruling, stating that the groups had raised many issues that were not considered at the original hearing. He also said the injunction had triggered “exactly the opposite effect” of that intended: generating mirror sites duplicating Wikileaks’ content and fanning media interest that only “increased public attention to the fact that such information was readily available online.”...
Try any of these:
USA (primary)
http://88.80.13.160/wiki/Wikileaks
BELGIUM (mirror)
http://wikileaks.be/wiki/Wikileaks
GERMANY (mirror)
http://wikileaks.cx/wiki/Wikileaks
The judge acknowledged in court Friday that there were serious questions about whether his original order represented a “possible violation of the 1st Amendment.”
YEAH: Besides, with all the hundreds of mirrors and re-directs, etc., that Wikileaks has, anything that any judge tries to do is a waste of time.....
BTTT.
You think that? Why bother?
Dude. I farted. It caught it like real time man. I always thought...
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