First Amendment

The Swiss Bank, Julius Baer & Co. Ltd. and its Cayman Island subsidiary Julius Baer Bank & Trust (Jointly Baer) have been granted a temporary permanent injunction¹ preventing Dynadot from hosting or resolving the transparency website Wikileaks Dot Org.

Evidently, Wikileaks Dot Org's anonymous users have published Baer documents which Baer considers harmful.

Web:

• UPDATED 02/19/2008 Wired, Cayman Islands Bank Gets Wikileaks Taken Offline in U.S.
• 'Whistleblower' website shut by US court over bank documents

Blog:

• UPDATED 02/19/2008 Daily Kos, Wikileaks Under Attack: California Court Wipes Wikileaks.org Out of Existence. By what logic or authority has Dynadot agreed on behalf of Wikileaks to seize and lock Wikileaks’ property interest in the domain name Wikileaks?
• UPDATED 02/19/2008 Register, US judge arranges summary execution of Wikileaks.org

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1. The temporary injunction was granted by United States District Court Judge Jeffrey White. Apparently, the injunction prevents the California web hosting company Dynadot from hosting or resolving the URL wikileaks.org which is ineffective to prevent ip (http://88.80.13.160/) or foreign mirror site (http://wikileaks.be/wiki/Wikileaks) viewing.

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