[IMC-UK-Features] wikileaks feature

[Shiar]

Hi,

Chrisc and I have done some work on Ulla's original proposal and added
some links. So here's the final version (unless anyone's got more links or
wanted to add/change something).

https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/UkWikiLeaks

Wikileaks censored by US Court

Transparency website Wikileaks has been muzzled with a legal injunction by
a US court following the publication of leaked documents about a Swiss
bank implicated in alleged money laundering. The anonymous whistleblower
site, devoted to battle against corruption and censorship, published
several hundred documents from a Swiss banking whistleblower purportedly
showing that Bank Julius Baer and its Cayman Islands subsidiary had been
involved in offshore tax evasion and money laundering by extremely wealthy
and, in some cases, politically sensitive clients from the US, Europe,
China and Peru. Rather than ordering the removal of specific documents,
the San Francisco District Court ordered Wikileak's DNS registrar,
Dynadot, to remove all DNS hosting records for the wikileaks.org domain
name and prevent it from resolving to the wikileaks.org website or any
other website or server other than a blank park page. There have also been
reports of attempts to lock down the site through Denial of Service
attacks and threats to its DNS record.

Knowing that governments and institutions will go to extreme lengths to
censor the truth, its founders had created an extensive network of cover
names from which one can access their materials or continue leaking secret
documents. Thus, while Wikileaks.org is down, other mirrors (copies of the
site) are still up and running, like wikileaks.be. It can also still be
accessed via its IP hosted in Sweden.

Wikileaks has published important leaked documents, such as the Rules of
Engagement for Iraq, the Guantanamo Camp Delta Standard Operating
Procedures and evidence of major bank fraud in Kenya that apparently
affected the Kenyan elections.

about Wikileaks | US judge arranges summary execution of Wikileaks.org |
US Court order shuts down Wikileaks.org | US court attacks web freedom,
enjoins Wikileaks.org out of existence | Wikileaks and Internet
Censorship: a comparative study | Full correspondence between Wikileaks
and Bank Julius Baer | Wikileaks and Northern Rock | Reports elsewhere:
IndyBay | Indymedia Ireland



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Shiar