Wikilieaks.org was a relatively unknown website that publishes stories about and links to embarrassing documents about business, governments and agencies from around the world. It is certainly not surprising that the website would be censored in China out of sheer habit BUT because they discussed the banking shenanigans that go on with money laundering in the Caymans, a US court has stopped the website's name from resolving (ie. Wikileaks.org doesn't work even though the website still exists).

The reason I wrote that it WAS a relatively unknown website is that, because of this US-censorship, direct links to the IP address of the site are spreading throughout the web like Captain Trips. The thing that these corporations generally fail to realize that is not too many people visited or even gave a shit about this website UNTIL they attempted to silence it. People ignore ranting fanatics all the time but once that fanatic is silenced in a way that is contrary to American ideals, the silence is DEAFENING in a way their rants never could have been on their own.

So if you're bored at work today and want to see video of the Japanese nuclear reactor that almost had a melt-down in 1995 (and was covered up) OR read about mafia money-laundering ethically questionable banking from Grand Cayman, go to the site. It is also accessible at Wikileaks.be but the document/video links still try to point to the original site. Best to stick with the IP address link (http://88.80.13.160).

Update: Just for your information...

The Judge that ruled in favor of the non-American entity without giving the US-based website a chance to respond is US District Judge Jeffrey White. I hope that any attorney that has to face him in court now will have a better understanding of his views on due process and freedom of speech (you know...some of the annoying parts of the Bill of Rights).

The web hosting company that complied with the judge is Dynadot. It agreed, not only un-link the wikileaks.org name from the website's address, but also to LOCK the name so that wikilinks couldn't just move the name to a new ISP. I know if my ISP did something like this (to one of its customers), I would dump them in a heartbeat. I hope that anyone who has a Dynadot website and cares about the first amendment would find a new ISP.