Wikileaks: U.S. Injunction Silences Whistle-blower Site
By Curt on Feb 25, 2008 in Wikileaks, United States, Censorship
On February 18, Jeffrey White, a California District Court judge issued an injunction against Wikileaks, a whistle-blower site.
Part of the injunction appears on the Wikileaks site.
Dynadot shall immediately clear and remove all DNS hosting records for the wikileaks.org domain name and prevent the domain name from resolving to the wikileaks.org website or any other website or server other than a blank park page, until further order of this Court.
The injunction was a result of a suit brought by Cayman Island’s Bank after Wikileaks posted a report alleging that money laundering was rampant in the Caribbean nation. Wikileaks was obliged to stop publishing and the site authors insist the injunction is illegal.
The Wikileaks.org injunction is ex-parte, engages in prior restraint and is clearly unconstitutional.
Wikileaks continues to publish outside U.S. jurisdiction. This ill-advised decision has put the U.S. in the same position as China when it comes to censoring this site and the work-around to continue publishing.
