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US district court judge orders shutdown of whistleblower web site

by wsws (reposted)
Thursday, February 28, 2008 :In an extraordinary act of censorship, lawyers representing the Swiss bank Julius Baer (BJB) obtained an injunction against the Dynadot corporation, US domain name registrar for the Wikileaks web site. Judge Jeffrey White of the Federal District Court in San Francisco issued the injunction February 15 in a lawsuit BJB filed against Wilikeaks and Dynadot.
The suit was filed after Wikileaks posted documents allegedly revealing fraudulent activities, including asset-hiding, money laundering and tax evasion schemes, on the part of the bank’s Cayman Islands branch. BJB claims the documents were stolen and contain customer information protected from disclosure under privacy laws.

The website of BJB promotes the bank as “the leading dedicated wealth manager in Switzerland,” concentrating on “private banking and asset management for private and institutional clients.”

Under the terms of the injunction, Dynadot may not release the registered wikileaks.org domain name, meaning that the Wikileaks web site cannot be reached through the related web address, www.wikileaks.org. Various overseas mirror, or duplicate, sites remain operational. (For a list of such addresses, click here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks#External_links).

A domain name registrar, such as Dynadot, is a company that typically has been accredited by ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, to register domain names. Many such companies, including Dynadot, also act as DNS (Domain Name System) hosting services.

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