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Germany not a hard-line censor after all
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| Beasts Associated were suitably unimpressed by this action and issued a
| statement (pdf) saying: "As a result of Mr. Reppe behaving in a manner that
| contravened the terms of the contract, notice of termination of his contract
| was issued as long ago as the start of December 2008, with the contract due
| to end on 30 March 2009, once the period of notice expired.
|
| "No objection was submitted in respect of the termination, and no legal
| action is pending against the termination."
|
| They also warned Reppe that he should move his domains to another registrar
| as his domains would be placed "in transit" after March 31.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/15/german_wikileaks_bungle_subscription/
Recent:
Germany deletes WikiLeaks.de domain after raid
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| Acording to claims of German registration authority DENIC, the Wikileaks.de
| domain has been sent to DENIC by the Internet domain registrar, "Beasts
| Associated" and therefore is "In Transit". The registrar claims this had
| happened as a consequence of "contract breach" by the domain owner. WikiLeaks
| has open questions that cannot be answered at this point in time. It also
| remains unclear whether the "breach of contract" is related to content on the
| website or administrative issues. An update will be posted as soon as we have
| all information required to assess the situation.
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http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Germany_muzzles_WikiLeaks
Why, Actually, Are They Hiding ACTA?
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| Given that a draft is now available, and that others will doubtless follow,
| the best thing would be for for the ACTA nations to acknowledge that we live
| in different, more open times, and to embrace them. Let them release an
| official ACTA draft for everyone to comment on – and not just the chosen few
| that are permitted to walk the hallowed corridors of power.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2085&blogid=14
Western internet censorship: The beginning of the end or the end of the
beginning?
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| Shortly after 9pm on Tuesday March 24, Wikileaks related buildings in Dresden
| and Jena, were raided by 11 plain clothes German police.
|
| Why?
|
| Over the last two years, Wikileaks has exposed detailed secret government
| censorship lists or plans for over eight countries, including Thailand, the
| United Arab Emirates, Australia, and Germany.
|
| Although Wikileaks' main site has been censored by the Chinese Public
| Security Bureau since early 2007, last week saw the site placed onto a secret
| list of sites "forbidden" by the Australian Media and Communications
| Authority, or ACMA.
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http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Western_internet_censorship:_The_beginning_of_the_end_or_the_end_of_the_beginning%3F
German police boot down doors of Wikileaks offices
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| Government's tendency to moprh from blocking "child porn" to censoring
| discussion of all government censorship was illustrated this week when German
| Police raided the offices of Wikileaks Germany.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/26/german_police_raid_wikileaks/
Newsflash: German Wikileaks Domain Owner Raided At Home - ACMA Leak Blamed
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| Early reports indicate that the home of the German WikiLeaks Domain owner has
| been raided by police investigating the ACMA list leak.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/24034/1054/
Facebook attacks UK gov't monitoring plans
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| Social-networking site Facebook has criticized government suggestions that
| intelligence services should monitor the web communications of all UK
| citizens.
|
| Facebook chief privacy officer and head of global public policy Chris Kelly
| told ZDNet UK on Tuesday that the government proposals, which include
| monitoring social-networking sites, were excessive.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-281560.html
Why Barclays Are Barking
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| Inevitably, a copy has made its way to Wikileaks; inevitably that link is
| being exposed all over the place, which has led to the site being overloaded
| (do make a donation if you can: I've given my widow's mite). Barclays Bank
| can apply for as many injunctions as they like, the judge can - and probably
| will - huff and puff as much as he/she likes, but the game's over: this stuff
| is out.
|
| And quite right too: these documents either show the bank engaged in
| something dodgy, in which case they should be published, or they don't, in
| which case there's no problem in them being public anyway, since the bank is
| asking for serious scads of public dosh, and is effectively being
| part-nationalised.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/03/why-barclays-are-barking.html
The State of the Database State
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| A recurrent theme in these posts – and throughout Computerworld UK – has been
| the rise of vast, unnecessary and ultimately doomed databases in the UK.
|
| But those stories have been largely sporadic and anecdotal; what has been
| lacking has been a consolidated, coherent and compelling analysis of what is
| going on in this area – what is wrong, and how we can fix it.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=2017
Government databases slammed as illegal
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| Of the 46 databases investigated, only six were found to conform to current
| human rights and data protection laws. Nearly twice as many are described
| as: "Almost certainly illegal under human rights or data protection law and
| should be scrapped or substantially redesigned." The remaining 29 databases
| all have significant problems.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/484/1051484/government-databases-slammed-illegal
Australia secretly censors Wikileaks press release and Danish Internet
censorship list, 16 Mar 2009
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| The first rule of censorship is that you cannot talk about censorship.
|
| In late 2008, Wikileaks released the secret Internet censorship list for
| Denmark, together with a press release condemning the practice for lack of
| public or judicial oversight. Here's an extract from the press release:
|
| The list is generated without judicial or public oversight and is kept
| secret by the ISPs using it. Unaccountability is intrinsic to such a
| secret censorship system.
|
| Most sites on the list are still censored (i.e must be on the current
| list), even though many have clearly changed owners or were possibly even
| wrongly placed on the list, for example the Dutch transport company
| Vanbokhorst.
|
| The list has been leaked because cases such as Thailand and Finland
| demonstrate that once a secret censorship system is established for
| pornographic content the same system can rapidly expand to cover other
| material, including political material, at the worst possible moment --
| when government needs reform.
|
| Two days ago Wikileaks released the secret Internet censorship list for
| Thailand. Of the 1,203 sites censored this year, all have the internally
| noted reason of "lese majeste" -- criticizing the Royal family. Like
| Denmark, the Thai censorship system was originally promoted as a
| mechanism to prevent the flow of child pornography.
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http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Australia_secretly_censors_Wikileaks_press_release_and_Danish_Internet_censorship_list%2C_16_Mar_2009
Wikileaked donor list shames US lawmaker
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| Financial data belonging to more than 4,700 donors of Republican Senate
| candidate Norm Coleman have been leaked to the internet following a breach of
| his campaign website that also made public the contact details of another
| 51,000 supporters.
|
| Two Microsoft Excel files containing the supporter information were recently
| posted on Wikileaks. One file contained the names, addresses, phone numbers,
| employers, email addresses, and partial credit card numbers of 4,721 people
| who had donated to Coleman. He's the incumbent US Senator who is still
| wrangling with comedian and talk-show host Al Franken for one of Minnesota's
| Senate seats.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/12/colman_database_leaked/
How to Save Investigative Journalism
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| At the same time, one of the best sources for investigative journalism,
| Wikileaks, is a bit short of dosh. Problem, meet solution: newspapers should
| fund Wikileaks.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-to-save-investigative-journalism.html
UK Government Opens Up a Little More...Or Not
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| That, too, is a pretty hopeful sign that someone, somewhere, is beginning to
| get this openness lark. In addition, these pages could become an important
| resource about the governmental use of open source in the UK. Interesting
| times.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=1935
Breaking: Wikileaks Missing
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/breaking-wikilinks-missing
Wikileaks Publishes $1B Worth of Congressional Reports
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| Wikileaks.org, the online clearinghouse for leaked documents, has published a
| complete database of Congressional Research Service reports, which are
| private research documents written for members of Congress and their
| staffers.
|
| The 6,780 reports date back to 1990 and comprise all of the digitized reports
| accessible by congressional offices, said Wikileaks, which estimated their
| value at US$1 billion. They do not contain classified material, but they do
| cover politically sensitive topics such as social policy, defense and foreign
| affairs.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/159237/wikileaks_publication.html?tk=rss_news
Extreme Openness: the Rise of Wikileaks
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| There is a long journalistic tradition of looking back at
| the end of the year over the major events of the preceding
| 12 months - one that I have no intention of following. But
| I would like to point out an important development in the
| world of openness that has occurred over that time-span:
| the rise and rise of Wikileaks.
|
| The site was actually founded two years ago, but most
| people (including myself) didn't really become aware of it
| until this year. Now Wikileaks is frequently to be found in
| the eye of the storm. Indeed, it seems consciously to be
| raising its sights ever higher: recently, it has published
| documents that are acutely embarrassing to the German and
| British governments.
|
| This is all good stuff, but I do worry that at some point
| the goading will get too much, and the needling too
| successful, until repressive governments like the one
| currently running the UK will fight back hard - citing the
| tired old tropes about "terrorism" or "child pornography"
| or maybe just "leaves on the track" - by ordering ISPs to
| block Wikileaks and any mirrors that pop up.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1676&blogid=14
Breaking: Wikileaks Missing
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/breaking-wikilinks-missing
Related:
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.
|
| 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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