Ziff Davis files for bankruptcy protection
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| Print and Web publisher Ziff Davis Media filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
| protection on Wednesday, citing declining advertising revenue and
| subscriptions as contributing factors, according an Associated Press report
| Wednesday.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9887337-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Good riddance. Biased anyway. They are said to have controlled almost half of
the technology press, IIRC. Now it's time to eliminate Microsoft astroturfers,
which people say have taken over Slashdot (many complaints recently, even
hours ago, about the editors also).
Swiss bank drops Wikileaks lawsuit
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| The bank argued it was trying to halt "the unlawful dissemination of stolen
| bank records and personal account information of its customers."
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080305/ap_on_hi_te/wikileaks_lawsuit
They said "stolen", not "forged". Oops. So it's real. Googbye and good night,
Bank Julius Baer.
Recent:
Wikileaks Shutdown: Censorship Is Censorship
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| If Wikileaks were a print publication, the injunction that has shut down the
| site would be unthinkable. Back in 1931, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a
| Minnesota law that allowed the closing of any "malicious, scandalous and
| defamatory" periodical. This court, by contrast, has not only barred future
| publication of the documents at issue but elected to put Wikileaks out of
| business.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/61873.html
Free Speech Advocates Mount Legal Battle to Unchain Wikileaks
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| In Bank Julius Baer & Co., Ltd v. Wikileaks, et al, the plaintiff claims that
| the posting of certain documents to the Wikileaks site violated Swiss and
| Cayman Island bank secrecy laws.
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| Judge Jeffrey White ordered domain registrar Dynadot to disable Wikileaks.org
| in response to Julius Baer & Co.'s complaint. The groups behind the request
| to lift the injunction claim that it violates the First Amendment.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/61876.html
WikiLeaks Under Fire
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| The transparency group WikiLeaks.org currently seems to be under heavy fire.
| The main WikiLeaks.org DNS entry is unavailable, reportedly due to a
| restraining order relating to a series of articles and documents released by
| WikiLeaks about off-shore trust structures in the Cayman Islands. The
| WikiLeaks whistle blower, allegedly former vice president of the Cayman
| Islands branch of swiss bank Julius Baer, states in the WikiLeaks documents
| that the bank supported tax evasion and money laundering by its clients from
| around the world
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/18/043211&from=rss
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