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You Judge Wikileaks

Source : Ross Mayfield's Weblog

Wikileaks, a site for whistleblowing otherwise confidential documents, had its domain name desisted by a federal judge in California and now has free speech legal support....One reason why U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White ordered the domain name offline was that Wikileaks had not sent a lawyer to a hearing or responded in any form. After that, a judgment for the plaintffs wasn't exactly a surprise.

Wikileaks, by the way, was sued by a group of Swiss bankers--Bank Julius Baer--who claim in the lawsuit that confidential information is on the site. Wikileaks is still online at the Internet address http://88.80.13.160/wiki/Wikileaks and a host of mirrors including wikileaks.cx.

A strength and a weakness is that a wiki is a central resource with decentralized control.  That openness and the open access to provision a wiki, makes models like Wikileaks possible, if not inevitable and ubiquitous.  Plus volunteered mirroring when a community starts to carry value that people don't want to shut down [..]

Ross Mayfield le 28.02.08 à 04:40 dans Wikisphère -
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