After unflattering and apparently internal documents from the Swiss banker Julius Baer appeared on Wikileaks, the bank filed a federal lawsuit in the US. A judge has now ordered Wikileaks.org scrubbed from the DNS system, but it's hard to eradicate a website.
Friday, February 22, 2008
Information will be free: Wikileaks still up, despite order
After unflattering and apparently internal documents from the Swiss banker Julius Baer appeared on Wikileaks, the bank filed a federal lawsuit in the US. A judge has now ordered Wikileaks.org scrubbed from the DNS system, but it's hard to eradicate a website.
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The legal issue involved here is "prior restriant". As I wrote on my own blog, the judge was deeply misguided to shut down the entire website over a few disputed documents.
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