Wikileaks Case Due Back in Court

[flashl]

Source: NY Times (AP)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- An effort at damage control has snowballed into a public relations disaster for a Swiss bank seeking to crack down on a renegade Web site for posting classified information about some of its wealthy clients.

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In federal court in San Francisco, the bank asked a judge to take down the site. Much to the outrage of free speech advocates and others, the judge did.

But instead of the information disappearing, it rocketed through cyberspace, landing on other Web sites and Wikileaks' own ''mirror'' sites outside the U.S. The digerati call the online phenomenon of a censorship attempt backfiring into more unwanted publicity the ''Streisand effect.''

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The case has also become the latest anti-censorship cause celebre, drawing legal filings from the ACLU, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and several media organizations, including The Associated Press. Those arguments will be heard Friday when the bank presses on with its efforts to have Wikileaks permanently barred from posting the documents.

NY Times

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Wikileaks-Shutdown.html

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That’s the beauty of the Internet. Netizens have not been socialized to stand in line so the overlords can use one bullet.

[comtec]

1. Can someone please post the link?

I'd like to see this wiki links, when things are a bit quiet here at work :)

[kas125]

2. here ya go -

http://88.80.13.160/wiki/Wikileaks