Germany shuts down Wikileaks
THE IDEA that whistleblowers exposing Australia's great rabbit-proof fence of Internet censorship might be okay if they publish their results overseas has been dealt a blow.
German coppers have raided the offices of Wikileaks.de and transferred the control of the domain to government authorities. The raid was triggered by WikiLeaks' publication of Australia's proposed secret Internet censorship list.
The list showed that far from censoring kiddie porn sites, the list also included many tame sites that were opposed to Aussie government policy. The publication of the list probably means that the great rabbit-proof fence plan will no longer enjoy much parliamentary support.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) told Aussie hacks that they did not ask the German plod to do anything. So why did the Germans feel the need to do anything?
According to Wikileaks, it was because the Germans are working on their own Internet black list and they don't want any German whistlebowers doing the same thing to them.
However the German coppers have been a bit embarrassed by the raids. Inspector Hans Knacker of the Berlin Yard told Der Spiegel that they had no idea that Wikileaks was an international press organisation.
However they still have not given the outfit its website back. The German police seem to think it's alright to shut down a newspaper provided it is online rather than printed in ink on paper.
Currently Germany and China are the only two countries that are censoring a WikiLeaks domain. We guess that if Germany goes down this censorship route Wikileaks will not be the last news agency or publication that will be banned for writing things that the government prefers not be reported. µ
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Hi there,
don't know the source for your article, but I have no problems whatsoever accessing the english and german Wikileaks site, and I'm sitting right here in Germany. ... so what?
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No "prepubescent looking" shaved minges here
Must have been a politicians wife or daughter on the site to get it on the BANNED list
"The list showed that far from censoring kiddie porn sites, the list also included many TAME SITES that were OPPOSED TO AUSSIE GOVERNMENT POLICY."
And so there is finally proof of what we all already knew. These kinds of draconian measures (be they censorship or surveillance) are never about the benefit of the citizen, it's about control by the state for their own nefarious ends.
What better way to silence all online dissent than to simply make such sites disappear without anyone ever knowing.
I don't understand why the Australian government aren't being given a bloody good kicking over this despicable and deceitful behaviour.
I can access http://wikileaks.de/, the link You give (http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Germany_deletes_WikiLeaks.de_domain_after_raid) points to a page with infos from April 9, 2009
Move along, nothing to see here subject.
You gave up your rights to arms, free speech, and knowledge in the name of freedom and peace. Move along or hehehe.
(This may be sarcasm, but the news make is seem so real)
Well, Nick, your Fatherland story is just not true. It was reported widely about one month ago, but actually Wikileaks was not shut down. There was a house search, which is bad enough, but the domain itself was not shut down. Actually there seems to have been some glitch with the Wikileaks people changing domain registrars and for a short time everybody believed it was shut down.
A note to previous commenters... the internet can't resonably be blocked by country A, B or C; even if German police shut down a local domain, you could still access it if it's an intenational organisation (depending on how they're set up and most follow that logic).
PS: if you don't like my personal spellling or grammmer go eat urself.
Have no issues getting there from down under..
If i really wanted to have people make up shit news on their own I would go to the barber shop.