____/ Mark Kent on Saturday 01 March 2008 11:38 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> 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
>
> Corruption is, err, corruption, now matter how you dress it up.
They issued a press release and they sent lawyers to serve as middlemen. It's
looking ugly and it's a victory for transparency over corruption. Good stuff
indeed! No fight for openness and justice is without resistance (from thugs).
Based on Microsoft's finances, Bank Julius Baer might be not much different
from Microsoft, but we shall see...
>> 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.
>>|
>>| 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
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>> Bank Julius Baer: killed by openness?
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>>
>> Context:
>>
>> 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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