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dsrtaoWhether it was right or wrong to attempt it (WRONG! DEFINITELY WRONG!) a judge in California did it ineffectively:
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White ordered the domain name of wikileaks.org to be shut down.
http://wikileaks.in, http://wikileaks.be, and a dozen or two other pointers to the same website are still up, of course. And thanks to the Streisand Effect, now you also know that wikileaks is a Wikipedia-derivative for preserving, publishing and commenting on information leaked by whistleblowers.
Did the plaintiff not know what to ask for? Did the judge know how (in)effective disabling a particular domain name would be? Is computer illiteracy rampant?
U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White ordered the domain name of wikileaks.org to be shut down.
http://wikileaks.in, http://wikileaks.be, and a dozen or two other pointers to the same website are still up, of course. And thanks to the Streisand Effect, now you also know that wikileaks is a Wikipedia-derivative for preserving, publishing and commenting on information leaked by whistleblowers.
Did the plaintiff not know what to ask for? Did the judge know how (in)effective disabling a particular domain name would be? Is computer illiteracy rampant?
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Date: 2008-02-19 04:22 pm (UTC)