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While accepting a Walkley Award for “Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism” on behalf Wikileaks, Julian Assange launched into a tirade aimed at Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gulliard.A somewhat dishevelled Assange, in a message recorded in the UK where he continues to fight extradition to Sweden where is wanted to face questioning regarding charges of sexual assault , accepted the award described as Australia’s version of the Pulitzer.He began the speech with the expected thank you for the award. That he ...
Wikileaks has announced the temporary suspension of all “publication” as a result of the financial blockade it faces from MasterCard, Visa, PayPal, Western Union, and the Bank of America. The announcement comes in the wake of it inadvertently releasing its entire treasure trove of diplomatic cables."In order to ensure our future survival, WikiLeaks is now forced to temporarily suspend its publishing operations and aggressively fundraise in order to fight back against this blockade and its proponents," Wikileaks founder ...
Following the latest dump of highly classified diplomatic cables by Wikileaks, the United States and others have expressed concern over risks the release presents to individuals named in the cables.Since November 2010, Wikileaks has been dumping batches of highly classified cables from US diplomatic missions.Answering questions about the cables, State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland chose to highlight the danger sensitive sources named in the cables may face as a result of the leaks."In addition to damaging our diplomatic efforts, ... The Wikileaks’ vs credit card giants Visa and Mastercard legal spat continues unabated...Following the whistleblowing site's ultimatum to sue, and the credit card giants’ apparent decision to reinstate donations, all within a week, Visa has announced that the lifting of the ban was not meant to be.According to AFP, Visa Europe announced in a statement it had reinstated the block on credit card donations to the whistle-blower website, after discovering it had been "breached".Quoting Sveinn Andri Sveinnson, Wikileaks’ lawyer, Forbes ...Mere days after issuing an ultimatum to Visa and Mastercard to lift their seven-month ban on donating to Wikileaks, the whistle-blowing website has claimed victory.Datacell, the whistle-blower’s data hosting service provider in a statement announced that, "…we have observed that an alternative payment processor that we have contracted with, has in fact opened the gateway for payments [to WikiLeaks] with Visa and MasterCard". The statement also read, "We choose to interpret this as that Visa and Mastercard [have] in ... Fed up with being unable to receive funds via Visa and Mastercard, on Monday Wikileaks issued an ultimatum. According to the self described, "not-for-profit media organisation," should the two financial giants not lift their ban on donations to Wikileaks, they will be laying a complaint with The European Commission.The European Commission is the executive body of the European Union entrusted with proposing and enforcing European Union legislation.Svein Andri Sveinsson, the controversial site’s Iceland based lawyer is reported to have ...Despite desperately fighting off a Swedish extradiction order from the United Kingdom, Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange has still managed to find time to sit down with the world's media. He however has chosen to ignore the traditional and expected choices of news-networks such as the BBC or CNN for lesser knowns such as India's NDTV.In his latest interview, with RT, a 24-hour Russian English-language satellite news channel, the Wikileaks co-founder yet again managed to make some rather interesting comments. ...
On December 3rd, noted cyber-libertarian, and former lyricist for the Grateful Dead, John Perry Barlow tweeted: "The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops. #WikiLeaks." Barlow joined a panel on the WikiLeaks and Civil Disobedience discussion at Social Media Week that used this quote as a starting point to explore just what online civil disobedience really means and how it has been executed so far. Just how do you stage a ...
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