A US court has tried to shut down a controversial website that allows whistle-blowers to post corporate and government documents anonymously, but the court has no jurisdiction to do so.
The site, known as Wikileaks.org, has been taken offline in the US due to a court order from the District Court in San Francisco. However, the site remains online in other countries, including Belgium and Germany.
The order came after a Swiss bank, Julius Baer, earlier this month filed a complaint against the site and San Mateo, California-based Dynadot, Wikileaks%26#039; domain-name registry, for posting several hundred of the bank%26#039;s documents.
Some of those documents allegedly reveal that Julius Baer was involved in offshore money laundering and tax evasion in the Cayman Islands for customers in several countries, including the US.
The court ordered that %26quot;Dynadot shall immediately clear and remove all DNS hosting records for the wikileaks.org domain name,%26quot; according to court documents. It also said that Dynadot should prevent the domain name from resolving to the wikileaks.org site or any other website or server other than a blank park page until further notice
Wikileaks%26#039; first amendment?
The 9th circuit there in California has Judges that are real nut cases. Most of them should be removed, but it hasn%26#039;t happen and probably want.
The case will end up in the supreme court and will be dismissed.
Wikileaks%26#039; first amendment?
The truth hurts doesn%26#039;t it? If wiki. can back up their statements, U.S. 1st Amendment will apply.
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