Archive for 'wikileaks and the law'
ACTA: Another misguided attempt to stop music piracy
Remove your coat. Take off your shoes. If your belt, earrings, watch or necklace are made of metal, take them off, too. Get your laptop out of your briefcase. Put all liquids in a small, clear plastic bag. Your skin is a bit too dark, your clothes a bit too shabby. Step over here and [...]
Posted: June 1st, 2008 under acta, wikileaks, wikileaks and the law.
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The higher moral code of Wikileaks and whistleblowing
Check out this fascinating article about Wikileaks from the Toronto Globe and Mail. The article’s writer, Ivor Tossell, discusses Wikileaks in the grand sense — what the site means for governments, dissidents and the Internet, and how the group’s legal invincibility and pro-citizen moral code have allowed it to take full advantage of the Internet [...]
Posted: June 1st, 2008 under human rights, journalism, privacy, wikileaks, wikileaks and the law.
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Blog and other buzz on Wikinews article censorship
The Wikimedia Foundation censored a Wikinews article about possible child pornography on Wikipedia, according to Wikileaks‘ most recently leaked document.
For full coverage, see this post.
For buzz, background and inside responses, check out the following links:
From a Wikinews Watercooler thread about the censored article, a comment by the article’s author, DragonFire1024:
My beef: this was an office [...]
Posted: May 19th, 2008 under journalism, wikileaks, wikileaks and the law, wikis.
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Wikimedia’s dirty little secrets: Wikinews censors article about Wikipedia porn controversy
The Wikimedia Foundation censored a Wikinews article about possible child pornography on Wikipedia, according to Wikileaks‘ most recently leaked document.
The Wikimedia Foundation is the parent company of Wikipedia and Wikinews, as well as a bunch of other free-content, user-created wikis. Wikileaks is not associated with Wikimedia.
Here’s the scoop. What happened, and when:
A Wikipedia article about [...]
Posted: May 19th, 2008 under Wikileaks vs. Scientology, journalism, privacy, wikileaks, wikileaks and the law, wikis.
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Wikileaks and the Mormons
Not too long ago, Wikileaks posted two versions of the confidential Mormon Church Handbook of Instructions, until now only possessed by Church leaders.
Yesterday the Church issued a copyright infringement notice to Wikileaks. It also sent one to the Wikimedia Foundation because Wikinews had written an article about the Wikileaked document (Wikileaks is not associated with [...]
Posted: May 15th, 2008 under Wikileaks vs. the Mormons, wikileaks, wikileaks and the law.
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Wikileaks on technology, security and the ethics of leaking
The New Scientist published an article about Wikileaks this week, offering interesting insight into the Wikileaks’ functionality and philosophy.
(A subscription is required to read the entire article, but a blogger posted it here.)
Some highlights:
How Tor, the anonymising internet technology Wikileaks uses, works:
Tor routes documents sent to the Wikileaks website into a cloud of hundreds of [...]
Posted: May 12th, 2008 under journalism, wikileaks, wikileaks and the law.
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