Archive for April, 2008
Wikileaks announces RSS feeds
Two RSS feeds are now available from Wikileaks, one for press releases, reports and document releases, and another only for press releases and reports.
Posted: April 11th, 2008 under wikileaks.
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The award show
Wikileaks has been nominated for the Index on Censorship’s Economist New Media Award for Freedom of Expression. Index on Censorship’s site here. Press email reprinted below:
Wikileaks has been shorted listed, and will probably win the Economist
New Media Award / Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression award.
Londoners may wish to attend the award ceremony on April [...]
Posted: April 9th, 2008 under wikileaks.
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Wikileaks vs. Scientology (and a copyright primer)
It started when Wikileaks released the Operating Thetan documents - the Bibles of Scientology - on March 24. The entire 600-plus page documents had never before been published for public viewing, and not because of any oversight on the Church of Scientology’s part. The docs are highly classified. So classified that the Church has sued [...]
Posted: April 9th, 2008 under wikileaks.
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The lines
It’s a classic battle of Left vs. Right. On one side, the activists: the ACLU, the Reporters’ Committee for Freedom of the Press, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (all of which filed briefs in the suit brought against Wikileaks by Swiss bank Julius Baer). These groups see Wikileaks as a key fighter in the war against [...]
Posted: April 7th, 2008 under wikileaks.
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Wikileaks buzz
This might be the only blog dedicated to discussing Wikileaks (at least in English). A year ago at least one other Wikileaks blog existed, but on March 7, 2007, its author seems to have given up.
That said, the blogosphere is moderately abuzz with posts about Wikileaks, or about documents released by the site. Gawker linked [...]
Posted: April 7th, 2008 under Julius Baer, wikileaks.
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Hot tips and controversy
Wikileaks.org publishes confidential documents received anonymously from dissidents, activists, journalists and whistleblowers operating around the world. Starvation at Fallujah, corruption in Kenya, slimy banking and sick, sick pedophiles - Wikileaks exposes them all.
The site’s stated mission is to develop “an uncensorable Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis.” Their primary goal: “to be of [...]
Posted: April 5th, 2008 under Julius Baer, human rights, privacy, wikileaks.
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