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WikiLeaks, Censorship and the Watchdog Web February 18, 2008 “A very interesting site for whistle blowers called WikiLeaks is facing government censorship as today a California judge reportedly ruled that the company in control of the site’s domain name must shut down public access to the entire site.” Wikileaks Calls for Help in Taking Whistle Blower Site to the Next Level November 28, 2008.
Wikileaks Calls for Sarah Palin's Arrest
The official Twitter account for Wikileaks has posted a press release this evening drawing a comparison between the controversial rhetoric from public figures that some believe contributed to the attempted assassination on Saturday of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the even more explicit calls from public officials for violence against Wikileaks spokesperson Julien Assange and others. The organization called for public figures making such calls to violence to be arrested and charged with crimes. Assange is attributed the following quote in the release: "No organisation anywhere in the world is a more devoted advocate of free speech than Wikileaks but when senior politicians and attention seeking media commentators call for specific individuals or groups of people to be killed they should be charged with incitement -- to murder.
I tell people about the Rachel Maddow iPhone app all the time; almost no one has heard of it, but it's great. From now on I won't just tell them about it - I'll share a link to it by email with just a few clicks in the new iPhone app from Appsfire , just approved by the App Store last night. Appsfire is a handy little service that makes it easy to share collections of your favorite apps with other people.
Appsfire: The Must-Have App Sharing App (iPhone)
Best known as a site that indexes and verifies leaked documents, Wikileaks exists as a space where whistleblowers, journalists and bloggers can speak out against corruption without fear of employer or government retaliation. According to a recent article in IT World , the organization will soon offer publishers a chance to get in on the action. The group will give publishers the opportunity to embed a Wikileaks submission form on their websites.
Wikileaks and Publishers to Partner on Whistleblower Stories
If you woke up today thinking this would finally be the day you would leak that top-secret document, you might want to hold off for another day. Wikileaks , the Internet home for whistleblowers world-wide, has temporarily shut its doors to concentrate on fundraising.
Wikileaks Plugs the Leak While It Waits for Funding
This Week in Online Tyranny
During this, the Week of the iPad , governments across the globe found just enough time in between loading apps to squeak in some good old-fashioned evil.Iceland Passes Proposal to Become 'New Media Haven'
If you're looking to say something contentious on the Internet, then Iceland is the place to go. The Icelandic Parliament unanimously passed a proposal yesterday to make the country a "new media haven" in an initiative inspired and strongly backed by Iceland-based whistleblower website WikiLeaks .
The wiki-based site for whistler-blowers, Wikileaks, today released what it called "an extraordinary compendium of over 91,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010."
Wikileaks Releases 91,000 Afghanistan War Documents Online
WikiLeakiLeaks: Open Attack or Honest Attempt At Media Transparency?
Gawker has had enough of the tight-lipped Wikileaks and its elusive founder, Julian Assange, it would seem. According to a blog post this morning, the media outlet decries the website to be "about as open as North Korea". In response, it has launched the hilariously-named Wikileakileaks , "your source for Wikileaks-related secrets, documents and rumors".Authorities cracked down on file-sharing sites across Europe yesterday in a major operation two years in the making, Swedish officials told media.
Police in 14 Countries Raid File-Sharing Hosts And Hit Close to Wikileaks
Wikileaks Loses Funding, Claims Government Blacklist to Blame
Wikileaks , the wiki-based site for whistle-blowers, has been facing increasing pressure from the U.S. government since its July release of more than 90,000 war documents from the war in Afghanistan.Take a look this morning at Reuters , the BBC , CNN or any number of other media sources and you'll read that WikiLeaks , the controversial wiki-based site for whistle-blowers, is about to release nearly half a million records pertaining to the Iraq War.
Wikileaks Founder: Media Reports of Iraq Document Release Based on "Tabloid" Blog
Wikileaks had set this afternoon as the date to release another round of secret U.S. government documents - this time, over 250,000 classified cables from various U.S. embassies.