WikiLeaks Turns to Swiss Party for Help With Web Address

[harvey007]

Source: New York Times

LONDON — The battle lines between supporters of the whistle-blowing Web site WikiLeaks and its detractors began to form on Sunday, as supporters erected numerous copies of the site on the Internet and the United States put pressure on Switzerland not to offer a haven to the site’s founder, Julian Assange.

Since several major Internet companies cut off services to WikiLeaks in recent days, activists have created hundreds of mirror sites, Web sites that host exact copies of another site’s content, making censorship difficult.

The collective Anonymous, an informal but notorious group of hackers and activists, also declared war on Sunday against enemies of Mr. Assange, calling on supporters to attack sites companies that do not support WikiLeaks and to spread the leaked material online.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/06/world/europe/06wiki.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

[Poll_Blind]

1. In a battle against world governments, I give advantage to WikiLeaks if 4Chan gets involved.

That could get "ugly".

PB

[tekisui]

2. An Information War seems to be looming.

These are exciting times we are living in.

[Downwinder]

3. A revolution in the virtual world.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

[glinda]

4. What is 4Chan?

[Pavulon]

5. The asshole of the internet. Started out cool, now just kid porn

a few creative people but generally just people posting pictures of their junk. Its worth a visit on a computer that does not belong to you and that does not belong to your employer.

[Poll_Blind]

6. It is, at heart, simply an image-posting message board. But that's like describing the Mongol...

...hordes as "some dudes on horses". It is (as The Guardian once described it) "lunatic, juvenile... brilliant, ridiculous and alarming." It has very many members. I would not recommend visiting: You can't un-see some things. The 4Chan collective don't generally agree on much. But when they do agree to pursue a course of action the results can be impressive.

Their WikiPedia entry explains a little more.

PB

[bemildred]

7. Chaos looms.

I can see that I have a new way to while away idle afternoons. I haven't seen anything that anarchic since the 90s dial-up bulletin boards.