Global Integrity’s recent work on freedom of speech online (featured on this blog) is cited on NPR’s All Things Considered, in a story on online censorship and Wikileaks. NPR.org: Ruling to Shut Down Leak Site Called Censorship
DetailsBy Suzanne Marmion If you thought your old school desk was uncomfortable, consider the classroom in Malawi just outside the commercial capital of Blantyre. The “schoolhouse” is simply a tree. Beneath its sheltering branches, children have arranged a circle of rocks. Some stones are barely bigger than a fist. Imagine teetering on one of those…
DetailsWikileaks responds to Bank Julius Baer, which has sued Wikileaks and successfully requested that their website Wikileaks.org be blocked. According to a Wikileaks press release, Baer filed papers for an IPO a mere three days before obtaining the censorship order. Wikileaks points out that the ongoing PR disaster for Baer was not well timed. The…
DetailsJudge Jeffery S. White, the judge who ordered Wikileaks.org scrubbed from the Web has begun backpedaling, saying that the site can stay up, as long as it doesn’t post any documents (Amended order: pdf download). Meanwhile, the Law Librarian Blog and Wikileak.org (a blog independent* of Wikileaks.org) have analysis of the judge’s rulings. I am…
DetailsUsing data from the Global Integrity Index, we put a U.S. court’s recent order to block access to anti-corruption site Wikileaks.org into context. In summary: The Wikileaks.org shutdown is unheard of in the West, and has only been seen in a handful of the most repressive regimes. Good thing it doesn’t work very well. Starting…
DetailsIncredibly, Wikileaks.org, an organization devoted to exposing corruption, has been muzzled by a U.S. court order (pdf download). Rather than attack a specific finding or document, the court has ordered their DNS registrar to essentially erase the organization’s website from the Web. While wikileaks.org is down, their site can be found via IP addess: http://88.80.13.160,…
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