EFF, ACLU Back WikiLeaks 116
souls writes "Seems like the forces to protect freedom-of-speech in the groundsetting Wikileaks.org case have spoken: Henry Weinstein at LA Times reports that a coalition of media and public interest organizations today urged judge Jeffrey White to rescind the shutdown of Wikileaks.org, which presents 'restraint on free speech that violated the First Amendment,' and is generally considered to become a representative case for free online speech.
The dirty dozen organizations fighting for your voice and mine include the EFF, the ACLU, The Times, AP, Gannett, Hearst, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and the Society of Professional Journalists. Lets hope that is enough muscle to stop a judge running wild in favor of a bunch of offshore bankers!
Meanwhile wikileaks is still going strong via all available other domains, and is currently organizing support and donations."
Let me be one of the first dozen people to say... (Score:5, Insightful)
Let's hope not (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:free speech can be overriden (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:free speech can be overriden (Score:5, Insightful)
Prior Restraint (Score:4, Insightful)
What did bother me was how Dynadot just rolled over and took this without batting an eye. They simply complied and let it happen without bother to contest it. Is it possible for wikileaks to get wikileaks.org changed to another domain registrar or should they just jump ship from this spineless drone?
It's "Ground-Breaking" or "Trend-Setting" (Score:3, Insightful)
Nevermind.
Re:Now we know. (Score:3, Insightful)
Next time, the government will react faster.
Re:Let's hope not (Score:5, Insightful)
You must be new here.
Not to slashdot, but to THIS PLANET. Here, we follow the Golden Rule: he who has the gold, rules. The US Constitution, the Magna Carta, all those other lovely documents all over the world were written with one purpose in mind - to give you the illusion of freedom while your collar remains firmly around your neck and chained to the grindstone so you can generate more wealth for the people that actually matter. The Gatses and Ellisons and Hiltons and Trumps own and rule the world, and if you believe otherwise you've bought into the illusion they want you to keep.
Make no mistake about it, the laws you must abide by can be safely ignored by them. They can change those laws if they want to; you never will. They own the media and the governments and they will convince you that the boot on your head is a good thing and you will clamor for another stomping from them.
Who should you vote for next election? It doesn't matter, all the candidates are owned by the same people. None of "your" representatives actually represent you.
The only thing I can't figure out is why they let the internet happen. Seems like a really bad move on their part; now I have a voice.
Re:free speech can be overriden (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Let's hope not (Score:5, Insightful)
I can think of two possibilities with respect to your worldview. Either they don't have the kind of control you think they do, or it's really a grand distraction to make you think you have a voice when you really don't have one at all.
Re:WikiLeaks is not Accountable (Score:4, Insightful)
I think you've missed the whole point of WikiLeaks.
It's designed to be immune to national court orders, because it's meant to report on abuses by governments and their legal processes.
It's also designed to be unaccountable because it's meant to be immune to pressure on individuals by governments and corporations.
The fact that wikileaks has to go to these lengths to ensure that reporting corruption and abuse is possible is a reflection on the societies we live in, not the organisation itself.
Re:free speech can be overriden (Score:3, Insightful)
And if they did post protected medical information, it would be very easy to legally have it removed under the HIPAA [hhs.gov] laws, and would likely be fined heavily for the violation.
*read-->think-->understand-->post* in that order only
Re:WikiLeaks is not Accountable (Score:4, Insightful)