Wikileaks What It Means for Journalism 12/17/2010 - ColumbiaJournalism | Internet Radio Featured follow Call in to speak with the host Columbia Journalism School (@ColumbiaJourn) presents a conversation about the latest developments in the Wikileaks controversy and what they mean for journalists and journalism. Tags: Wikileaks Columbia Journalism School School Emily Bell Todd Gitlin Alexander Hotz h:20172s:1430066archived Recommended For You Comments
WikiLeaks Transcript: The Assange interview The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, has been holed up in a mansion in East Anglia since he was released from prison last week. He is under strict bail conditions while he fights extradition to Sweden where he is wanted for questioning about claims of sexual assault. Today programme presenter John Humphrys went to meet him for what is Mr Assange's first face-to-face broadcast interview since his release. Q: Why won't you go back to Sweden? JA: I have been back. Q: But it has now. JA: It did not happen, and then I asked: "OK, I have things to do, I had only planned to be in Sweden for one week, it's time to leave. Q: Why can't you go back to Sweden? JA: I don't need to go back to Sweden. Q: You do because the law says you must. JA: Well no, the law says that I also have certain rights. Q: But they don't just want to have a chat, do they? JA: No, they do. Q: That rather belittles what this is all about. JA: I have already spoken to them. Q: But they want to talk to you again. Q: Yet. Q: No.
Dutch public TV keeps Wikileaks site online The Netherlands Media Authority (CvdM) has said it will not close down a Wikileaks mirror site hosted by public broadcaster PowNed. The issue was raised by Christian Democrat MPs who said it was unacceptable for a publicly funded organisation to publish a copy of the secret US embassy messages. Media Minister Marja van Bijsterveld, when asked by reporters what her position was, said "It is not up to me as the government's media minister to intervene in the output of public broadcasters". After PowNed, a second public broadcaster, VPRO, has republished the Wikileaks files. Last week the Wikileaks website published thousands of secret US embassy messages, whose outspoken and frank tone caused an uproar in diplomatic circles, with world leaders demanding apologies for the manner in which they were described. Multiple copies of the Wikileaks files have been posted on independent servers around the world. © Radio Netherlands Worldwide
LE PIEGE WIKILEAKS Ce texte est un « article presslib’ » (*) Un article du New York Times : Prospect of WikiLeaks Dump Poses Problems for Regulators par Andrew Ross Sorkin, attire l’attention sur le fait que les documents que Wikileaks s’apprête à diffuser à propos d’une grande banque, embarrasseront davantage les régulateurs du monde financier que cette banque elle-même. C’est vrai. J’ai eu entre les mains (dans le cadre de mon activité légitime au sein de banques américaines !) L’absence de régulation ne découle donc pas du fait que les régulateurs ne savent rien, mais du fait qu’ils n’agissent qu’avec une extrême mollesse. Une simple question de rapport de force. Bien sûr le régulateur doit justifier alors le fait de ne pas avoir agi, bien qu’il ait su. La réaction des autorités pourrait être la même que dans le cas des faits rendus publics dans The Big Short : une audition au Congrès ou au Sénat. Il y a là un piège, et particulièrement machiavélique.
Twitter Explains Why #WikiLeaks Isn’t Trending Twitter has finally responded to numerous accusations that it has been purposely keeping #WikiLeaks and related hashtags out of its Trending Topics list. Twitter spokesperson Carolyn Penner just published a post on the microblogging service's blog that more fully outlines how Trending Topics are determined on Twitter. In essence: Twitter favors novelty over popularity. Trending Topics are "designed to help people discover the 'most breaking' breaking news across the world… Captur[ing] the hottest emerging topics, not just what's most popular," Penner writes. "Topics break into the Trends list when the volume of Tweets about that topic at a given moment dramatically increases," she adds. From this explanation, we can infer that the reason the WikiLeaks hasn't trended this week, despite being the most-discussed topic on Twitter at times, is because there hasn't been a dramatic increase in the level of discussion about WikiLeaks compared to previously.
WikiLeaks How to Think About WikiLeaks - Alexis Madrigal - Technology This is a regularly updated post. It was first published 12/8/2010 at 11:51am. Its time-stamp indicates when it was last changed. In the days since WikiLeaks began releasing a small percentage of its cache of 250,000 cables sent by State Department officials, many people have tried to think through the event's implications for politics, media, and national security. Writers pulling at the knot of press freedom, liberty, nationalism, secrecy and security that sits at the center of the debate have produced dozens of fantastic pieces. Send suggestions to amadrigal[at]theatlantic.com. For clarity's sake, I'm sorting this archive into four sections. Kim Zetter on WikiLeaks' finances. WikiLeaks' expenditures have risen dramatically in the last five months, from a paltry $38,000 between October 2009 and July 2010 to more than $495,000 in the last five months, according to a foundation that manages most of the organization's donations. And this brings us back to the Nobel Peace Prize. C.
EU must provide "political assylum"to hosts of wikileaks DEN HAAG - De Europese Unie (EU) moet de internetvrijheid beschermen en daarom ''digitaal politiek asiel'' aanbieden aan webhosts die sites als WikiLeaks faciliteren. Foto: Getty Images Dat bepleitte Tweede Kamerlid Arjan El Fassed van GroenLinks donderdag in een overleg met minister Uri Rosenthal (Buitenlandse Zaken). Volgens El Fassed moet de EU de blokkade van hosts van klokkenluiderssite WikiLeaks ongedaan maken. Voor zo'n blokkade is een uitspraak van de rechter nodig, anders is er sprake van internetcensuur, aldus het Kamerlid. Financiering Hij vindt verder dat de EU de financiering door derden van WikiLeaks mogelijk moet maken, omdat ook dit niet door een rechter is verboden. GroenLinks roept Rosenthal ook op te voorkomen dat de EU op een of andere manier meewerkt aan een mogelijke uitlevering van WikiLeaks-oprichter Julian Assange aan de Verenigde Staten. El Fassed vreest dat Assange daar dan geen eerlijke rechtsgang zou krijgen. Gedragscode Rosenthal wilde er verder niet op ingaan.
Wikileaks : l’État, le réseau et le territoire » Article » OWNI, Digital Journalism Pour Anthony Besson, le bras de fer que se livrent WikiLeaks et l'ordre politique est à l'origine d'une tectonique des pouvoirs inédite, dans laquelle Internet fait figure de territoire dissident sur lequel les États n'ont aucune prise. “ Infowar”, “cyber warfare”[en], “opération riposte”, “guerre de l’information”,… les titres couvrant l’affaire WikiLeaks ont largement puisé dans le vocabulaire militaire pour décrire les événements qui ont suivi la publication des câbles diplomatiques par le site de Julian Assange. La multiplication des déclarations violentes de journalistes et hommes politiques à l’encontre de WikiLeaks, l’acharnement des États a vouloir faire fermer le site en vain via les hébergeurs ou les fournisseurs de noms de domaines, et bien sûr la “riposte” des Anonymous par attaques DDoS, tout cela participe bien d’un climat de “guerre”. L’Internet, un territoire étranger Même le gigantesque firewall chinois n’est qu’une chimère. Illustrations CC: Norman B.
WikiLeaks mirrors multiply as main funding source gets cut off The Internet may be working to take WikiLeaks offline, but the site's contents aren't going to disappear, thanks to hundreds of mirrors that popped up over the weekend. But even though more than 200 sites around the world now host the controversial leaked documents, WikiLeaks may face an all-too-familiar funding problem if it wants to continue publishing new leaks. WikiLeaks has been server hopping lately thanks to a combination of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and pressure from politicians. A DDoS attack had originally pushed WikiLeaks to move some of its operations to Amazon, but then Amazon booted the site from its servers after Sen. Joe Liberman (I-CT) pressured the company to stop associating itself with WikiLeaks. This prompted WikiLeaks to put up a plea on its website for a mass mirroring so that it would become "impossible to ever fully remove WikiLeaks from the Internet."
WikiLeaks WikiLeaks embassy cables: download the key data and see how it breaks down | World news • Remember this is the date, time, sender and tags for each cable - NOT the text of the cable itself WikiLeaks embassy cables revelations cover a huge dataset of official documents: 251,287 dispatches, from more than 250 worldwide US embassies and consulates. It's a unique picture of US diplomatic language - including over 50,000 documents covering the current Obama administration. But what does the data include? The cables themselves come via the huge Secret Internet Protocol Router Network, or SIPRNet. An embassy dispatch marked SIPDIS is automatically downloaded on to its embassy classified website. We've broken down the data for you - and you can download the basic details of every cable (without the actual content) below. Thanks to Guardian developer Daithi Ó Crualaoich we've performed some analysis of the data - which you can download for yourself below. What can you do with the data? Download the data World government data • Search the world's government with our gateway