Harvard law professor Yochai Benkler says that WikiLeaks clearly qualifies as a media entity, and argues that by pursuing Bradley Manning for aiding the enemy, the government is putting journalism at risk as well as whistle-blowing. Read more »
During his court-martial trial, Bradley Manning said that he tried to contact journalists at the New York Times and the Washington Post but got no interest and then decided to leak classified military documents to WikiLeaks. Read more »
The debate over whether WikiLeaks should be seen as a media entity like the New York Times took on a new urgency this week after the military prosecutor in whistleblower Bradley Manning’s trial said he sees no difference between the two. Read more »
Most of the recent attention around WikiLeaks has been focused on the legal issues surrounding its controversial founder, Julian Assange. But we shouldn’t let that blind us to what the organization has accomplished and the critical role it plays as a “stateless news organization.” Read more at GigaOM »
When the British royal family asked UK newspapers not to publish pictures of Prince Harry frolicking nude in Las Vegas, it seemed like a ludicrous request. But even though the media largely complied, the reality of internet life meant the pictures were impossible to suppress. Read more »
In response to a GigaOM post about how attacks on WikiLeaks threaten the rights of all media entities, former New York Times executive editor Bill Keller said he agrees the organization should be protected by the First Amendment and media companies should come to its defence. Read more at GigaOM »
There are signs that the U.S. government wants to target mainstream journalists and media outlets for the same kind of investigation that WikiLeaks has been subjected to for publishing classified information, which makes it even more important to defend WikiLeaks’ status as a media entity. Read more at GigaOM »
Attempts by various levels of government both in the U.S. and around the world to track dissidents through social networks has put pressure on companies like Twitter to comply with these court orders — but Twitter seems determined to uphold its users rights whenever possible. Read more at GigaOM »
It has been some time since WikiLeaks stunned the world with classified video of U.S. military attacks on civilians in Iraq and thousands of… Read more »
Julian Assange, co-founder of WikiLeaks, has announced that the whistleblowing website is suspending publishing operations in order to focus… Read more »
A security breach has led to the WikiLeaks archive of 251,000 secret U.S. diplomatic cables being made available online, without redaction t… Read more »
Last year, as part of a broad web offensive against Wikileaks, U.S. government lawyers filed court papers seeking information about several… Read more »
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, claimed today he was in possession of “insurance” files on Rupert Murdoch and his global media com… Read more »
That was quick: the WikiLeaks app on Apple’s App Store, published only on December 17, was early today removed by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL). The de… Read more »
Britain’s high court today granted bail to Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who is wanted in Sweden for questioning over allegations of… Read more »
A British court today granted bail with strict conditions to Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks website, who faces allegations of… Read more »
As Julian Assange entered Wandsworth prison tonight, WikiLeaks faced the greatest challenge in its four-year history. Already stretched as i… Read more »
The Guardian’s live blog on the events leading up to and including the arrest of Julian Assange. (The time listed before the entries is loca… Read more »
Plans to meet with police, battles against extradition, closed bank accounts — just another day in the life of Julian Assange. Here were to… Read more »
The United States struck its first blow against WikiLeaks today after Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) pulled the plug on hosting the whistleblowing… Read more »
