SWEDEN’S PIRATE PARTY OFFERS ASYLUM TO WIKILEAKS
July 28, 2010 by admin · View Comments
Sweden’s Pirate Party, which currently hosts the Pirate Bay, the BitTorrent site that has repeatedly clashed with the movie and record industries and government authorities over alleged copyright infringement, has offered to give the controversial WikiLeaks.com a safe harbor. The offer came after WikiLeaks released more than 90,000 secret U.S. government documents about the war in Afghanistan, thereby inviting a government investigation and much official wrath. Until now, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has managed to keep his operations dispersed, but U.S. authorities could set up a task force to go after numerous Internet Service Providers who have spread the leaks internationally (a counterpart to Richard Nixon’s infamous “plumbers” group). Chief among WikiLeaks’ web hosts reportedly is Swedish-based PRQ. TorrentFreak.com on Tuesday quoted Anna Troberg of the Pirate Party as saying, “Given that Wikileaks’ activities strike at the very heart of American power, it’s probably just a matter of time before they [the Swedish government] act.”
WikiLeaks is not the same as Wikipedia (in the hed).
Also, interesting analogy to Nixon's plumbers, although his task force was covert. What's your source?
WikiLeaks is not the same as Wikipedia (in the hed).nnAlso, interesting analogy to Nixon’s plumbers, although his task force was covert. What’s your source?
WikiLeaks is not the same as Wikipedia (in the hed).nnAlso, interesting analogy to Nixon’s plumbers, although his task force was covert. What’s your source?
We've corrected the headline (caused by a short-circuited synapse, we suspect).
There have been numerous reports that WikiLeaks keeps its operations spread out internationally to avoid the possibility of encountering authorities determined to plug the leaks to them.
We’ve corrected the headline (caused by a short-circuited synapse, we suspect). nnThere have been numerous reports that WikiLeaks keeps its operations spread out internationally to avoid the possibility of encountering authorities determined to plug the leaks to them.
We’ve corrected the headline (caused by a short-circuited synapse, we suspect). nnThere have been numerous reports that WikiLeaks keeps its operations spread out internationally to avoid the possibility of encountering authorities determined to plug the leaks to them.