Bush-appointed judge orders wikileaks.org domain off-line

Submitted by JBanholzer on Mon, 02/18/2008 - 12:50pm.

This bolsters the argument for the need to spread out control of the Internet to
more responsible places.

In order to deal with Chinese censorship, Wikileaks has many backup sites such as wikileaks.be (Belgium) and wikileaks.de (Germany) which remain active. Wikileaks never expected to be using the alternative servers to deal with censorship attacks, from, of all places, the United States.