{"id":197271,"date":"2008-02-19T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/19\/wikileaks-org-taken-offline-by-judge\/"},"modified":"2008-02-19T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T11:00:00","slug":"wikileaks-org-taken-offline-by-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/19\/wikileaks-org-taken-offline-by-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikileaks.org Taken Offline By Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is pretty close to unprecedented, see <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/02\/us_court_shuts_down_whistleblo.php\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/7250916.stm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The judge, Jeffery White, had the registrar take down the page, and prevent any transfer of the domain.<\/p>\n<p>FWIW, I&#8217;ve not reviewed his background, but Judge White does not seem to be a lockstep Bushite, he has allowed environmental groups and cities sue federal agencies over global warming.<\/p>\n<p>This was in response to a lawsuit brought by a Swiss banking group over documents leaked that imply that they were aiding tax evasion and money laundering.<\/p>\n<p>FWIW, a <a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.be\/wiki\/Wikileaks\">Belgian mirror<\/a> is accessible at this time, and the number of mirror sites is probably growing exponentially.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is pretty close to unprecedented, see here and here. The judge, Jeffery White, had the registrar take down the page, and prevent any transfer of the domain. FWIW, I&#8217;ve not reviewed his background, but Judge White does not seem to be a lockstep Bushite, he has allowed environmental groups and cities sue federal agencies &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,997,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-internet","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}