Court orders Wikileaks be taken offline

Whistle-blower Web site Wikileaks.org has been effectively ordered offline by a California court. Last week, the court ordered domain name registrar Dynadot to remove all DNS entries for that domain. According to a story by the BBC, Dynadot was also ordered to "prevent the domain name from resolving to the wikileaks.org website or any other website or server other than a blank park page, until further order of this Court." Swiss banking group Julius Baer Bank and documents surrounding its offshore activities are at the center of the controversy. The Wikileaks.org site is still available here.

Read the full BBC story: "Whistle-blower site taken offline"

Read Declan McCullagh's take in CNET News.com's The Iconoclast blog: "Wikileaks domain name yanked in spat over leaked documents"

[W2Kuser]

They also demanded, and got, the IP# of all visitors as part of the court order.

[mcondo]

Visitors are just that. They can arrive due to news articles, radio reports and word of mouth. Releasing their IP# is an invasion of privacy. These draconian tactics are what's driving this country to the trash heap. The Judge seems to be caving in to industry demands at the expense of the whole planet, when one considers the consequences of removing many of the documents to be found at wikileaks.
When the light of day is allowed to shine into the records of those who deny the truth and thwart the progress of science we'll have a chance of surviving a couple more decades.

[Al Feldzamen]

Perhaps a movement could be started to send the judge a copy of the CONSTITUTION?

[superforestnyc]

The net treats censorship like damage, it simply finds ways to route around the affected parts.
Squeeze as tight as you like, but the truth will find a way.
Transparency is the key to future growth.

[MorsethDiamond]

After all, this is the "people's republic of Kalifornia"