WikiLeaks Block Hurts Anonymity Everywhere
Anonymous communication online is becoming quite a theme here on Idea Lab. The web site WikiLeaks.org (if you're in the United States, right now you'll have to access it through their IP address) reports that it has been censored by U.S. court injunction (it is also banned in China). The point of the web site is to allow people to post anonymously information - in large quantities - that governments and corporations don't want people to know. This is bad. Taking down a domain name is a drastic measure for suppressing information on the Internet. If this is not pushed...
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