jay pettitt on 7/12/2010 at 11:36
Swiss bank Post Finance has been hit by repeated denial of service attacks and is currently down. Paypal also froze payments to wikileaks and is being attacked.
Fingernail on 7/12/2010 at 11:54
He's been arrested, will likely be extradited to Sweden.
Shakey-Lo on 7/12/2010 at 12:01
Quote:
"...even in authoritarian countries, information networks are helping people discover new facts and making governments more accountable...[President Obama] defended the right of people to freely access information, and said that the more freely information flows, the stronger societies become. He spoke about how access to information helps citizens hold their own governments accountable, generates new ideas, encourages creativity and entrepreneurship."
"On their own, new technologies do not take sides in the struggle for freedom and progress, but the United States does. We stand for a single internet where all of humanity has equal access to knowledge and ideas."
- U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, 21st January 2010
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"...the United States deeply regrets the disclosure of any information that was intended to be confidential...we are taking aggressive steps to hold responsible those who stole this information."
- U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, 29th November 2010
Kolya on 7/12/2010 at 15:35
Amazon.com, Paypal.com, EveryDNS.net, MasterCard.com, PostFinance.ch and the Australian government: All obliging instruments of the United States government's pressure to turn freedom into an f-word.
Kuuso on 7/12/2010 at 17:03
Agreed to some extent, albeit I do realize why EveryDNS kicked them out. They actually were DDOSsed so hard that it could have resulted in tens of thousands of websites going down.
Kolya on 7/12/2010 at 17:25
That might well be in case of EveryDNS, although it is disputable whether they had a moral responsibility to support their client Wikileaks because the site was under attack.
Also the pressure I spoke of is not just some weird conspiracy theory: Homeland Security's (
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2010/dec/03/wikileaks-tableau-visualisation-joe-lieberman) Joe Lieberman has publicly requested companies to terminate their relationship with Wikileaks and several companies have followed his request, willingly acting as executive extensions of the US government in the private sector.
Stitch on 7/12/2010 at 17:28
Assange is an attention whoring douchebag who should see court over the alleged rape accusations.
Having said that, he's not really "the problem" as far as the leaked docs go, and the US government should ignore the guy and deprive him of the soap box upon which he will otherwise cement his undeserved folk hero status.
Kolya on 7/12/2010 at 17:45
The fact that he is public figure is likely his only life insurance and you call him an attention whore?
demagogue on 7/12/2010 at 18:18
No, the fact that he has pre-arranged to automatically disclose all 250K diplomatic cables wholesale if any legal action is brought against him is his
life-insurance (
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/world/europe/07assange.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=a22) blackmail policy. He has seriously lost all moral credibility with this, if he hadn't already for releasing the "strategic targets" memo (which has no possible redeeming value being public aside from putting them at risk). And yes, IMO, it tags him incontrovertibly as an attention whore.
And if he successfully blackmails here, what's to stop him from using it to blackmail any issue that strikes his fancy. "I don't like that tariff or this law in Kentucky. Change it or the cables get released." :rolleyes:
