Internet Censorship closing in.
It's been rather strange recently seeing all this truth on BBC News 24 (thanks to Wikileaks) For rolling news it does seem to be about two days behind what's going on with the whole saga though. apologies if some of the following is innacurate but i've been trying to piece together what's going on from various sources.
So at the same time as (under US pressure) INTERPOL put out an arrest warrant for Julian Assange for false accusations of rape that have already been answered a 'patriot hacker' called th3j35t3r brought down the Wiki site with a simple denial of service attack...later he put on twitter: (TWITTER? Do hackers use twitter nowadays???)
"
www.wikileaks.org TANGO DOWN – for attempting to endanger the lives of our troops, 'other assets' & foreign relations"
Wikileaks said the site had been temporarily brought down by a 2 gigabits per second DDOS attack.(the equivalent of a movie every second)
The great hackers front door is kicked in 6 hours later by US law officials and all his equipment is confiscated.
Wikileaks goes back up shortly after and then today is attacked again by an unknown hacker but this time 10Gb attack...more than five times the original attack. This shuts Wikileaks down in the US and Europe all afternoon.
Then Amazon pull support
Tonight WikiLeaks put this out on their status on Facebook and the site is back up.....
"WikiLeaks is the first global Samizdat movement. The truth will surface even in the face of total annihilation"
I was thinking about how annoying it must be for governments not to have control of what people find out about and read online leading me to the conclusion that the age of the true internet and uncensored communication must be in danger.
Are these leaks the excuse government needs to start to censor? I see Obama got the right to use a kill switch for the internet a few months ago in the US senate. Is this just the beginning of the internet being brought under control??
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