Why Shutting Down Wikileaks Will Backfire
| Mon Feb. 18, 2008 1:50 PM PST
A federal judge in California has ordered the whistleblower website Wikileaks to go dark. But the site wasn't taken out by the Feds— who have good reason to be upset with it for posting sensitive information about Gitmo and rendition flights—but rather a Swiss Bank that filed suit after the site posted documents suggesting that it was up to some financial hanky-panky in the Caymans. The bank may have won round one, but Wikileaks and its friends are already winning round two. The site is being mirrored in several places (see list here) and the bank's docs are readily available as a download. I suspect that this instance of judicial overreach will be overturned and the main Wikileaks site will be back. And in the meantime, some Swiss bankers are about to get a lesson on how hard it is to stuff digital genies back into their bottles.
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Submitted by capt (not verified) on Mon Feb. 18, 2008 6:51 PM PST.
"The three freedoms that can save the world."
Or at minimum let us complain by voice in print and prayer as the hellbound handbasket reaches terminal velocity.
Well put Cappie:
Pls note:
I did not say:
'will save the world'
I only said: 'can'.
The world (or at least large parts of it) does not seem to even want salvation. The desire is an implied component of any solution. Whether we deserve a solution is another necessary component and that question is unknowable to myself, although I suspect we probably fall somewwhat short.
(IMHO) We are only monkeys--with fancy buttons that light up pretty colors.
Not far below our primate brain are circuts stemming from reptilian origins. Some of these still control our daily decisions.
If there is a God and if God decides that we are deserving of salvation, I strongly suspect He will only do so while holding his nose.
"We are only monkeys--with fancy buttons that light up pretty colors." Trollstein, you are the only one in this conversation who claims to be a monkey. You can access the website in a couple of other countries(e.g. Belgium), only in the USA is the lights out for now.
Pretty much everyone in power aren't tech savvy. They don't understand that once it's on the internet, there's nothing they can do to stop it. The more they try, the more people will make sure it's available and make a bigger story out of it.
And let's keep it this way. Their stupidity ensures that these things are given the limelight rather than rusting away in some forgotten corner of the internet.
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