Ron Schenone

WikiLeaks – Will The Whistle Blowing Website Survive?

Posted by on Dec 5, 2010 | 10 Comments

WikiLeaks has come under more pressure this past week, after the release of military documents that could endanger lives. First Amazon dropped WikiLeaks from their servers, after a DOS attack. Now PayPal, which is owned by eBay, is claiming that WikiLeaks, has violated their acceptable use policy. In addition the WikiLeaks owner is facing allegations of sexual assault and a warrant has been issued for his arrest.

According to one recent article it states:

The move on Friday came after Amazon and other web providers cut off hosting access for the cyber-terrorist organization.

PayPal has permanently restricted the account used by WikiLeaks due to a violation of the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy, which states that our payment service cannot be used for any activities that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity. We’ve notified the account holder of this action.”

When Wikileaks fails to grasp that their work is based on illegal activity, it shows how deluded they are in their evil deeds.

Julian Assange, Wikileaks Founder, had an Interpol arrest warrant issued for him out of Sweden. He is in Great Britain but has yet to be extradited.

Thought both Amazon and PayPal state that their actions were not the result of any pressure from the government, I find this hard to believe. One can only guess the type of pressure that was placed on these companies to shut down WikiLeaks and put the web site out of business.

So what do you think? Does WikiLeaks deserve to be destroyed?

Comments welcome.

Source – examiner.com

  • Don Naphen

    I believe in free speech and the Freedom of Information Act provides anyone access to legitimate documents (some being carefully censored!). Having said that Ron, my personal opinion on what WikiLeaks did was absolutely wrong. I would like to use stronger language, but will respect the rules of this forum! Not having read the leaked documents, I can say with all certainty that our State Department now is faced with dealing with a lot of mistrust amongst our allies who will not have open and candid discussions with us. I can guess that the enlisted man who provided these documents to WikiLeaks will probably never see the light of day either! I have no idea what his motives were (other than money?), but he’ll regret his actions long after you and I are gone.

  • JFK

    You’d be surprised what people do for Ad Sense!

  • Dick

    There is so much about this event that requires 2nd and 3rd thoughts.

    Bottom line? It has already cost lives, so it is wrong. Period.

    However, don’t we all have an aversion to government secrets and dirty dealing? That’s being exposed and one part of me wants to cheer, but people died, so no cheering allowed.

    Of course panic driven administrations around the world are going to hang this guy if they can. I imagine there will be charges in a dozen countries against him. And rightly so.

    Internet freedom? Freedom of speech? at what expense?
    It has already cost lives (1,300 in Kenya from a prior release of WikiLeaks).

    Principles can outweigh human life. But that usually means ME dying for MY principles, not ME dying for YOUR principles.
    WE can die for OUR right to free speech, but should OUR right to free speech cause other to die? These are not easy issues and every conceivable situation cannot be foreseen, to accurately judge.

    Perhaps WikiLeaks could have embarrassed and exposed the lying government leaders more carefully?

    I believe he is only out for personal gain, celebrity and maybe a few bucks too. And for those base motives, he causes innocents to suffer or even die. Not right. Very wrong.

  • http://www.bytehead.org/blog/ Bryan Price

    @Don, sorry, the FOIA doesn’t go far enough in my opinion. The history behind ACTA is enough to already damn that process. And you haven’t read the documents, but you still think that they are absolutely wrong?

    The fact of the matter is, as other senior government officials have said, the US leaks like a sieve to begin with. The damage, if any, is minor to any kind of trust the US has. The people that are screeching the most are the ones that are under the gun, and they SHOULD be under the gun for this.

    As far as what will stop Wikileaks? I suspect nothing will. With ICE taking domains without any kind of oversight, just telling Network Solutions that they own that domain, the Internet takes censorship as damage and routes around it. And that’s exactly what is going to happen, another ghost DNS system will come up and then ICE and China and whoever else will find that what they thought the had control over no longer is.

    MPAA, RIAA and the other **AA’s haven’t managed to even dent torrent trackers, I don’t expect any government to do it either, especially since stuff like Wikileaks will be highly secured by two key encryption, instead of out in the open like the MP3s and software.

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  • http://www.vaporoutlet.com vaporizers

    WikiLeaks is down for a fewdays. Wondering who is behind Denial-of-Service Attacks?

  • mikebravo

    In the long run we shall see who does more for our country, Wikileaks or the US Senate. I will put my money on Wikileaks. The Senate is the one run by crooks and liars.

  • JFK

    Your right. WikiLeaks is gone and I doubt it will be back.

    Threat to national Security. With an Interpol price on Assange’s head the NSA probably did it’s job.

  • http://www.dentalseo.info dental seo

    and btw, the site is still up and running wikileaksch. What company is hosting it in Switzerland?

    • http://wp3.lockergnome.com/nexus/blade/ Ron Schenone

      I believe they are keeping that information under wraps. :-)
      But this morning it was reported that the WikiLeaks founder founder was arrested.
      There may be more secret stuff about BP, BofA and others coming our way. :-)