US officialdom has now inserted a finger in the intelligence dike of the Information Age. For those of us who have been peeking through the news at wikileaks.org, and occasionally glimpsing issues before the media and governments could react and distract, we're now left waiting for the next incarnation of what was a significant (if imperfect) innovation. Presently, there seem to only be torrent mirrors, with hard-to-navigate archives. For those unfamiliar with Wikileaks, it was an authoritarianist's worst nightmare. When a worthy successor appears, let's post a link to it here.
You're welcome. Lots of mirrors are coming up now. Knowledge is power- We must not allow our governments to hoard it. Main Wikileaks Mirror
Most wikilinks mirrors are presently down, I'm not sure if it's innocent high traffic or... Here's a cache-proxy link that is still holding up: http://88.80.13.160.nyud.net:8080/wiki/Wikileaks
I was hoping for more discussion of the Wikileaks concept when I first posted this thread. For so many World Events issues, there is a wealth of information available in Wikileaks that the major media has largely neglected. The wikileaks concept itself is well worth discussing, in terms of the implications to freedom, human rights, state security, and corporate security. In more repressive countries like China, wikileaks is right in the thick of the fight for freedom of information. Wikileaks was actually conceived in response to official Chinese suppression of information. The injunction against the US Wikileaks domain was not a very intimidating shot across the bow for promoters of greater informational openness. As you may know, a US District Court Judge issued an injunction in February that temporarily shut down a US-based Wikilinks portal. This was over a somewhat scandalous case involving Swiss bank Julius Baer. Last month, the bank dropped its case against wikileaks, and U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White later admitted that he had gone too far in shutting down the wikileaks.org domain. Since then, there are times when the various wikilinks servers seem to get overwhelmed, and I often wonder if these have been denial-of service attacks. There are many wikileaks entries that are highly pertinent to discussions here. I'll try and remember to refer to them more often. I would like to discuss more generally here this potentially revolutionary challenge to our institutions of secrecy (intelligence organizations) and to our institutions of information packaging (media) that Wikileaks advances. From a USAmerican perspective, I find public apathy and indifference a greater deterrent to the impact of Wikileaks than official censorship.
i agree james, it pisses me off that the labor party who surposedly surport the eventual implimentation of vollentry euthinasia (at least at a state level) are blocking sites about it. Ridiculas
Here's some consolation: Your government can't figure out how to block Wikileaks, anyway. They're just threatening fines against Aussies who post links about whatever it is your government is insecure about- which is of course secret. Got any links? I'm just gratified that I'm not living in the only Kafkaesque "free" country.
