The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has received praise as well as criticism. At the same time, bitcoin wikileaks founder39s restaurants U. On 16 Marchthe Australian Communications and Media Authority added WikiLeaks to their proposed list of sites that will be blocked for all Australians if the mandatory internet filtering scheme is implemented as planned. On 2 DecemberPrime Minister Julia Gillard made a statement that she 'absolutely condemns' WikiLeaks' actions and that the release of information on the site was 'grossly irresponsible' and 'illegal.
Rudd said, "The core responsibility, and therefore legal liability, goes to those individuals responsible for that initial unauthorised release. Lula went on to state — in reference to WikiLeaks disclosure of bitcoin wikileaks founder39s restaurants US diplomatic cables in November and December — WikiLeaks had "exposed a diplomacy that had appeared unreachable.
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Singh told Parliament, "The Government of India cannot confirm the veracity, contents or even the existence of such communications. I may point out that many of the persons referred to in those reports have stoutly denied the veracity of the contents. An issue was raised that the offence of bribery was committed in India.
Government rejects that allegation absolutely and firmly. In an interview with Times NowJulian Assange labelled the Indian government's response as "one of the worst in the world" and a "clear attempt to mislead the nation on what the cables were".
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Ahmadinejad claimed that the release of cables purporting to show concern with Iran by Arab states was a planned leak by the United States to discredit his government, though he did not indicate whether he believed WikiLeaks was in collusion with the United States or was simply an unwitting facilitator. Muammar Gaddafi blamed WikiLeaks for the Tunisian revolution "[Do not be fooled by] WikiLeaks which publishes information written by lying ambassadors in order to create chaos.
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The Turkish government blocked access to Wikileaks on July 20, after it released nearlyinvolving the ruling AK Party. And this is the way that transparency works and that corruption has been confronted in many cases.
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State Department had contacted the office in an email saying that the diplomatic cables which were released by WikiLeaks were "still considered classified" and that "online discourse about the documents 'would call into question your ability to deal with confidential information'".
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That is our view. Chinese journalist Shi Tao was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment, in after publicising an email from Chinese officials about the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Assange responded to the suggestion bitcoin wikileaks founder39s restaurants eavesdropping on Chinese hackers played a crucial part in the early days of WikiLeaks by saying "the imputation is incorrect.
The facts concern a investigation into Chinese espionage one of our contacts was involved in. Somewhere between none and handful of those documents were ever released on WikiLeaks.
Non-government targets of the Chinese espionage, such as Tibetan associations were informed by us ". Russian investigative reporter Andrei Soldatov bitcoin wikileaks founder39s restaurants criticised WikiLeaks for disclosing documents "without checking of the facts, without putting them in context, and without analysing them.
According to The Times LondonWikiLeaks and its members have complained about continuing harassment and surveillance by law enforcement and intelligence organisations, including extended detention, seizure of computers, veiled threats, "covert following and hidden photography.
Furthermore, several companies ended association with WikiLeaks. Government, Tableau Software also deleted WikiLeaks' data from its website for people to use for data visualisation. During the days following, hundreds of and eventually more than a thousand [] mirror websites of the WikiLeaks website were established, and the Anonymous group of Internet activists asked sympathizers to attack the websites of companies which opposed WikiLeaks, [] under the banner of Operation Paybackpreviously directed at anti-piracy organisations.
On 3 December, PayPalthe payment processor owned by eBaypermanently ended the account of the Wau Holland Foundation that had been redirecting donations to WikiLeaks. PayPal alleged that the account violated its "Acceptable Use Policy", specifically that the account was used for "activities that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity.
In a statement on its website, it stated that this was because Assange "provided false information regarding his place of residence" when opening the account. On bitcoin wikileaks founder39s restaurants same day, MasterCard announced that it was "taking action to ensure that WikiLeaks can no longer accept MasterCard-branded products", adding "MasterCard rules prohibit customers from directly or indirectly engaging in or facilitating any action that is illegal.
On 7 DecemberThe Guardian stated that people could donate to WikiLeaks via Commerzbank in Kassel, Germany, or Landsbanki in Iceland, or by post to a post office box at the University of Melbourne or at the bitcoin wikileaks founder39s restaurants. On 21 December, media reported that Apple Inc. As part of its 'Initial Assessments Pursuant to WikiLeaks', the US Presidential Executive Office has issued a memorandum to the heads of Executive Departments and Agencies asking whether they have an 'insider threat program'.
In a joint press release, the organisations stated: Since the publications of CableGate, WikiLeaks has experienced an unprecedented global financial blockade by major finance companies including MasterCard, Visa and PayPal although there has been no legal accusation of any wrongdoing.
In Octoberit was reported that the organization Moneybookerswhich collected donations for WikiLeaks, had ended its relationship with the website.
Moneybookers stated that its decision had been made "to comply with money laundering or other investigations conducted by government authorities, agencies or commissions. On 18 DecemberBank of America announced it would "not process transactions of any type that we have reason to believe are intended for Wikileaks," citing "Wikileaks might be engaged in activities WikiLeaks responded in a tweet by encouraging their sympathizers who were BoA customers to close their accounts.
Bank of America has long been believed to be the target of WikiLeaks' next major release. During 5 and 6 Februarythe group Anonymous hacked HBGary's website, copied tens of thousands of documents from HBGary, posted tens of thousands of company emails online, and usurped Barr's Twitter account in revenge.
Some of the documents taken by Anonymous show HBGary Federal was working on behalf of Bank of America to respond to WikiLeaks' planned release of the bank's internal documents.
On 18 JulyWikiLeaks, shunned by the financial industry and almost insolvent, announced that it had found a new method to accept donations.
On 24 JanuaryWikiLeaks announced via Twitter that the majority of its donations came from the cryptocurrencies Litecoin and Bitcoin. In July Veterans for Peace president Mike Ferner editorialised on the group's website "neither Wikileaks nor the soldier or soldiers who divulged the documents should be prosecuted for revealing this information.
We should give them a medal. Documentary filmmaker John Pilger wrote an August editorial in the Australian publication Green Left titled "Wikileaks must be defended. Daniel Ellsbergthe man who released the Pentagon Papers inhas been a frequent defender of WikiLeaks.
Following the November release of U. That risk has been largely overblown. Following the November leak of United States diplomatic cables The Atlanticin a staff editorial, opined "Wikileaks is a powerful new way for reporters and human rights advocates to leverage global information technology systems to break the heavy veil of government and corporate secrecy that is bitcoin wikileaks founder39s restaurants suffocating the American press.
On 4 DecemberReporters Without Borders condemned the "blocking, cyber-attacks and political pressure" being directed at WikiLeaks. The organisation bitcoin wikileaks founder39s restaurants also concerned by some of the extreme comments made by American authorities concerning WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange.
In an article titled "Only WikiLeaks can save US policy" published on the online foreign affairs magazine The Diplomatformer long-time CIA counter-terrorism expert Michael Scheuer said the source of interest in WikiLeaks revelations was in the inherent dishonesty of recent U.
Bush and Barack Obama. Evan Hughes, editor-in-chief of wired. The New York Times reported that over WikiLeaks mirror sites sprang up after some hosting companies cut their services to the company. In reference to the support being shown for WikiLeaks, Mr. Housh said; "The reason is amazingly simple, we all believe that information should be free, and the Internet should be free.
By then over 1, mirror sites had been set up for hosting content no longer accessible at WikiLeaks. Anonymous also issued a fresh statement; "While we don't have much of an affiliation with WikiLeaks, we fight for the same reasons. We want transparency, and we counter censorship This is why we intend to utilise our resources to raise awareness, attack those against, and support those who are helping lead our world to freedom and democracy.
On 8 December a petition was launched on Avaaz in support of WikiLeaks, which was signed by over thousand people within the first few hours, the total number went up to thousand by 15 December In early DecemberNoam Chomsky offered his support to protesters across Australia planning to take to the streets in defence of WikiLeaks.
Government — Hillary Clinton, others — and also by the diplomatic service. In the Privacy International Hero of Privacy. WikiLeaks has attracted criticism from a variety of sources.
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