Court Takes Wikileaks.org Offline
February 19, 2008
Washington (dbTechno) - A court has taken Wikileaks.org offline. The web site allows people to post in a similar way to how Wikipedia works. The only difference was that they would post government and corporate documents which these organizations wanted to keep secret.
A judge closed down Wikileaks.org after it was revealed what the site was actually doing.
A Swiss bank by the name of Julius Baer cited that the site contained many documents they never wanted revealed.
The ISP of Wikileaks, Dynadot, was ordered by the court to prevent the domain name from going back online.
The court ruled that only a blank page could be put up at the domain.
Wikileaks has stated that this move by the court is “unconstitutional.”
Baer stated that the documents showed their offshore activities, which thus revealed tax evasion and money laundering.
Wikileaks said they have been “forcibly censored.”
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So, WikiLeaks publishes the private documents of Julius Baer co., which show that the company has participated in money laundering and tax evasion. The court orders WikiLeaks to cease and not exist. But might Julius Baer have committed a crime? Are we not allowed to seek social justice against criminal activity through public means? Are we not allowed to expose criminality in public and private institutions? Well, at least one judge thinks we are not. The purpose of the First Amendment, preventing silencing of the press through injunction, is to guarantee that activities of organizations such as WikiLeaks will be permitted for the benefit of society. This ruling is possibly the most imprudent jurisprudence since Dred Scott.