Guardian: WikiLeaks - Internet Backlash Follows US Pressure Against Whistleblowing Site

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/05/wikileaks-internet-backlash-us-pressure

WikiLeaks: Internet backlash follows US pressure against whistleblowing site

Individuals redirecting parts of their own sites to Swedish internet host amid 'censorship'

Charles Arthur, technology editor
guardian.co.uk
Sunday 5 December 2010 14.49 GMT

American pressure to dissuade companies in the US from supporting the WikiLeaks website has led to an online backlash in which individuals are redirecting parts of their own sites to its Swedish internet host.

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Website hosts are being encouraged to add a "/wikileaks" directory into their sites, redirecting to which redirects to http://88.80.13.160/, run by the Swedish hosting company Bahnhof.

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The backlash has also gained its own tag on the microblogging service Twitter, where people who have linked to the main site are using the hashtag #imwikileaks.

The technical details of how to make a site's subdirectory point directly to the WikiLeaks site are described by Paul Carvill, a British developer, and Jamie McClelland.

"I've done this as a simple gesture of my support for WikiLeaks and my opposition to arbitrary censorship of the web by governments and corporations," Carvill says on his page, while McLelland says that adding his support "seems like a good way for us all to really pitch in and share the risk that the folks at WikiLeaks are taking all by themselves".

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[myrna minx]

1. K&R Freedom of speech indeed. n/t

[EFerrari]

2. Interesting question, why isn't #wikileaks trending?

New Questions About Why #Wikileaks Isn’t Trending On Twitter

December 5, 2010 in Students

A week ago I wrote a piece on why the hashtag #Wikileaks wasn’t appearing on Twitter’s trending topics lists, concluding that Wikileaks’ failure to trend was an artifact of an actually-quite-reasonable-really algorithm, and shouldn’t be taken as evidence of anything nefarious.

Okay. That was then. But in the intervening week, Wikileaks has seen a truly staggering amount of traffic on the site, and still hasn’t trended once.

How staggering? This staggering:

Back in the summer, the title of the movie Inception peaked at 0.4% of Twitter traffic, soon stabilizing at about half that. It trended for a month and a half. Wikileaks has broken 2.0% of total traffic twice in the last week, and hasn’t yet dipped below Inception’s all-time high.

Want more? Here’s more. Wikileaks had more traffic than “world aids,” the week’s longest-trending phrase, for all but three hours of the week. It out-trafficked Bieber and Obama by wide margins. It was more popular than Jesus by an order of magnitude. At its peak, it appeared more frequently on Twitter than the word “or.”

http://studentactivism.net/2010/12/05/twitter-wikileaks-trending-2/

[Poboy]

3. Interesting.