Wikileaks Mirrors

Wikileaks is a website that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive governmental, corporate, or religious documents, while taking measures to preserve the anonymity and untraceability of its contributors.

The court then ordered any and all Wikileaks mirror sites, from India to New Zealand, to remove the offending documents and to prevent their further dissemination.

So Wikileaks.org went offline, but Wikileaks mirror sites hosted overseas hold the same content, and the original site is still up and running from Sweden without its easier-to-type URL.

Download the full archive from here in a variety of formats or Wikileaks mirrors or torrent sites if Wikileaks is censored from your country.

Wikileaks, a wiki-based information clearinghouse for whistleblowers that TIME said “… could become as important a journalistic tool as the Freedom of Information Act.”, has had their.org domain taken offline due to an illegal court order out of California.

“Wikileaks provides a forum for dissidents and whistleblowers across the globe to post documents, but the Dynadot injunction imposes a prior restraint that drastically curtails access to Wikileaks from the Internet based on a limited number of postings challenged by Plaintiffs.

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In February 2008, the Wikileaks.org domain name was taken offline after the Swiss Bank Julius Baer sued Wikileaks and the wikileaks.org domain registrar Dynadot in a court in California, United States, and obtained a permanent injunction ordering the shutdown.

It is extremely unlikely that this decision will stand up in an appeals court, but the larger point is that there is no reason this case should even be fought.

Starting in 2007, Global Integrity added specific questions about Internet censorship to the Integrity Indicators, which are a set of 304 questions addressing the practice of anti-corruption in national governments.

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We have always held that a free and critical media is an essential component of good governance; adding an analysis of Internet censorship was an overdue refinement.

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Rather than simply ordering the offending documents removed, however, the court instead attempted to disable the site altogether by ordering Dynadot, Wikileaks’ domain name registrar, to halt access to the web address.

Their stated goal is to ensure that whistle-blowers and journalists are not thrown into jail for emailing sensitive or classified documents, such as what happened to Chinese journalist Shi Tao, who was sentenced to 10 years in jail in 2005 after publicising an email from Chinese officials about the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

Each has it’s own flavor to the repression of online speech Internet censorship is still in an experimentation phase, and even the most aggressive approaches don’t seem to work very well.

The bank used American courts and a compliant domain registrar to scrub the wikileaks.org URL from the Internet.

The whole event seems to encapsulate the constant criticism of governance in the United States: that the government has been captured by corporate interests, and that the world-leading rule of law and technocratic mechanisms in place can be hijacked to serve as tools for narrow, wealthy interests.

The judge who issued the ruling that shut down wikileaks.org has been shown to be anti-information and anti-reporter before.

The injunction was the opening move in a suit brought by the Cayman Islands’ Julius Baer Bank and Trust , which, along with its Swiss parent company, is seeking to prevent the site from disseminating documents which plaintiffs describe as “stolen confidential bank documents and account records.”

Users can read and write explanatory articles on leaks along with background material and context.

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Julius Baer alleges that “not less than 6.4% of Wikileaks’ total world-wide Internet users/visitors are located in San Francisco,” but it appears that no federal court has ever found sufficient minimum contacts to assert jurisdiction over a website based solely upon the source of its incoming traffic.

Most governments, aside from targeted libel restrictions, don’t bother regulating online political speech at all.

United States, the Court refused to permit the government to restrain news coverage of a classified government study, even though the government claimed publication of the materials posed a threat to national security.

The same judge, Judge Jeffrey White, who issued the injunction vacated it on February 29, 2008, citing First Amendment concerns and questions about legal jurisdiction.

Put simply, for a court to have jurisdiction over a defendant, that defendant must either be present in the state and personally served with court papers, or have sufficient “minimum contacts” with the state in which the court sits that the defendant should expect to be sued there.

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