Unlimited Wikileaks Shenanigans

[Remington]

Damn. So does Canada have a death penalty? (I mean, or is it culture to call for people's death on TV)

Any offense that would earn a death sentence in the States is instead punished with lifetime solitary confinement in a 5x5 cell that has Celene Dion and Maritime Polka music playing 24/7.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Damn. So does Canada have a death penalty? (I mean, or is it culture to call for people's death on TV)

Any offense that would earn a death sentence in the States is instead punished with lifetime solitary confinement in a 5x5 cell that has Celene Dion and Maritime Polka music playing 24/7.

Death penalty is more humane.

[Remington]

Damn. So does Canada have a death penalty? (I mean, or is it culture to call for people's death on TV)

Any offense that would earn a death sentence in the States is instead punished with lifetime solitary confinement in a 5x5 cell that has Celene Dion and Maritime Polka music playing 24/7.

Death penalty is more humane.

We can get rather vindictive at times.

[Adios]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/12/02/wikileaks.cave.server/index.html?hpt=C2

Amazon dumped the controversial site WikiLeaks from its computer servers on Wednesday.

But WikiLeaks, which is known for publishing state secrets, apparently has found a new home for its files: A Cold War bunker, inside a Swedish mountain, that's been described as fit for a "James Bond" movie.

A company called Bahnhof is hosting the WikiLeaks site from a literal cave inside White Mountain, near Stockholm, Sweden, according to news reports from Forbes, The Associated Press, and the Norwegian news website VG Nett.

The MIT Technology Review, where we spotted this story, describes the situation this way:

"If Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is trying to turn himself into a Bond villain, he's succeeded: the ongoing distributed denial of service attack against Wikileaks has forced his minions to move the site to a fortified data center encased in a cold war-era, nuke-proof bunker encased in bedrock. Really."

This just keeps getting better.

[the last yatto]

Amazon pulled their support 24 hours after being contacted by Joe Lieberman

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/01/wikileaks-website-cables-servers-amazon

The US struck its first blow against WikiLeaks after Amazon.com pulled the plug on hosting the whistleblowing website in reaction to heavy political pressure.

The company announced it was cutting WikiLeaks off yesterday only 24 hours after being contacted by the staff of Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate's committee on homeland security. . . .

While freedom of speech is a sensitive issue in the US, scope for a full-blown row is limited, given that Democrats and Republicans will largely applaud Amazon's move. . . .

The question is whether he was acting on his own or pressed to do so by the Obama administration, and how much pressure was applied to Amazon. . . .

Lieberman said: "[Amazon's] decision to cut off WikiLeaks now is the right decision and should set the standard for other companies WikiLeaks is using to distribute its illegally seized material. I call on any other company or organisation that is hosting WikiLeaks to immediately terminate its relationship with them."

The department of homeland security confirmed Amazon's move, referring journalists to Lieberman's statement.

if anyone was in need of a second amendment remedy it would be that guy.

[Adios]

Except Assange isn't an American.

[Cain]

Lieberman is on a roll:

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/latest-updates-on-leak-of-u-s-cables-day-5/#liebermans-objections-cause-wikileaks-more-problems

Wednesday afternoon, Tableau Software removed data visualizations published by WikiLeaks to Tableau Public. We understand this is a sensitive issue and want to assure the public and our users that this was not an easy decision, nor one that we took lightly. . . .

Our decision to remove the data from our servers came in response to a public request by Senator Joe Lieberman, who chairs the Senate Homeland Security Committee, when he called for organizations hosting WikiLeaks to terminate their relationship with the website.

But wait, it gets better!

http://feeds.salon.com/~r/salon/greenwald/~3/4BwLvyHgyFM/censorship

I just spoke with the creator of the "visualizations":  a British freelance journalist named James Ball.  The only thing these "visualizations" are were charts summarizing the material released by WikiLeaks (for instance, the charts counted the documents which originated from each country, the number of documents by year, and the like).  These charts contained no classified information whatsoever, and disclosed nothing about the content of the cables.  It was the completely innocuous work of a freelance journalist to inform the public about the categories of documents released.  Those charts were then linked to from the WikiLeaks site, but hosted separately by Tableau.

[the last yatto]

Except Assange isn't an American.

Lieberman isn't either IMHO

[the last yatto]

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/02/amazon-wikileaks-has.html

Copyrights > journalism

[Requia ☣]

Are they really that dumb, or do they just expect people to buy that?  The feds don't have copyrights.

[Telarus]

Are they really that dumb, or do they just expect people to buy that?  The feds don't have copyrights.

This. And yes, they expect people to buy that.

[bds]

Now they're trying DNS fun.

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Lieberman is on a roll:

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/latest-updates-on-leak-of-u-s-cables-day-5/#liebermans-objections-cause-wikileaks-more-problems

Wednesday afternoon, Tableau Software removed data visualizations published by WikiLeaks to Tableau Public. We understand this is a sensitive issue and want to assure the public and our users that this was not an easy decision, nor one that we took lightly. . . .

Our decision to remove the data from our servers came in response to a public request by Senator Joe Lieberman, who chairs the Senate Homeland Security Committee, when he called for organizations hosting WikiLeaks to terminate their relationship with the website.

But wait, it gets better!

http://feeds.salon.com/~r/salon/greenwald/~3/4BwLvyHgyFM/censorship

I just spoke with the creator of the "visualizations":  a British freelance journalist named James Ball.  The only thing these "visualizations" are were charts summarizing the material released by WikiLeaks (for instance, the charts counted the documents which originated from each country, the number of documents by year, and the like).  These charts contained no classified information whatsoever, and disclosed nothing about the content of the cables.  It was the completely innocuous work of a freelance journalist to inform the public about the categories of documents released.  Those charts were then linked to from the WikiLeaks site, but hosted separately by Tableau.

Here it is (I rotated it for your viewing pleasure):

[Rumckle]

A choice quote http://www.smh.com.au/world/russian-and-turkish-leaders-angry-at-interference-and-slander-20101202-18iaz.html

Mr Putin said that suggestions in a US briefing that he was ''Batman'' and the President, Dmitri Medvedev, played the role of ''Robin'' in the Russian government, was intended ''to slander one of us''.

ETA:
Also, those leaked cables about Russia, combined with this:
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=27582.0
Is particularly interesting.

[Cain]

Lieberman is on a roll:

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/latest-updates-on-leak-of-u-s-cables-day-5/#liebermans-objections-cause-wikileaks-more-problems

Wednesday afternoon, Tableau Software removed data visualizations published by WikiLeaks to Tableau Public. We understand this is a sensitive issue and want to assure the public and our users that this was not an easy decision, nor one that we took lightly. . . .

Our decision to remove the data from our servers came in response to a public request by Senator Joe Lieberman, who chairs the Senate Homeland Security Committee, when he called for organizations hosting WikiLeaks to terminate their relationship with the website.

But wait, it gets better!

http://feeds.salon.com/~r/salon/greenwald/~3/4BwLvyHgyFM/censorship

I just spoke with the creator of the "visualizations":  a British freelance journalist named James Ball.  The only thing these "visualizations" are were charts summarizing the material released by WikiLeaks (for instance, the charts counted the documents which originated from each country, the number of documents by year, and the like).  These charts contained no classified information whatsoever, and disclosed nothing about the content of the cables.  It was the completely innocuous work of a freelance journalist to inform the public about the categories of documents released.  Those charts were then linked to from the WikiLeaks site, but hosted separately by Tableau.

Here it is (I rotated it for your viewing pleasure):

http://i.imgur.com/G0FZG.png

I just got a call from the DHS....