I have two primary thoughts on Wikileaks. First, I find it cute how so many people immediately started throwing around the word “cables”, as if they’re totally, like, in the in! Pfft. Second, you know Julian Assange is doing something right if he’s getting governments to freak out this much.
WikiLeaks had become an Internet vagabond Friday, forced to move from one website to another as governments and hackers hounded the organization, trying to deprive it of a direct line to the public.
EveryDNS — a company based in Manchester, New Hampshire, stopped directing traffic to the website wikileaks.org late Thursday after it said cyber attacks threatened the rest of its network.
But while wikileaks.org remained unreachable Saturday, the organization has found new homes. Its German website wikileaks.de was reachable Saturday, and so was its Swiss domain.
The Swiss address directs traffic to servers in France, where political pressure quickly mounted with Industry Minister Eric Besson on Friday saying it was unacceptable to host a site that “violates the secret of diplomatic relations.”
The web hosting company OVH confirmed that it had been hosting WikiLeaks since early Thursday, after a client asked for a “dedicated server with … protection against attacks,” adding it was now up to the courts to decide on the legality of hosting the site on French soil.
Probably the worst thing in all this is that with all these government attacks and arrest warrants, the sexual assault and rape charges Assange faces in Sweden are only being undermined. Honestly. Who actually believes those charges are at all legit? I certainly don’t. And, unfortunately, I’m sure many other people hold the same doubts. That isn’t to say it’s unfortunate that people doubt what are probably bogus charges meant to make Assange look like a bad guy; that doubt a good thing. The bad thing is that those charges only serves to undermine all the real charges of sexual assault and rape that go doubted all the time.
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