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Submission + - Wikileaks calls for global boycott against eNom (wikileaks.org) 5

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souls
souls writes: "Seems like the folks at Wikileaks are on an anti-censorship-spree again: In a press release announced earlier, the site calls for global awareness and support in a boycotting campagin headed towards eNom., Inc., one of the top internet domain registrars, apparently involved in systematic domain censoring.
It appears eNom on Feb 28th shut down wikileaks.info, one of the many Wikileaks mirrors held by a volunteer as a side-effect of the court proceedings around wikileaks.org. That not being enough, the New York Times reported earlier this weekon numerous cases of domains held with eNom just disappearing, in connection to a Treasury Department driven blacklist that looks like a fairly random compilation of domains and information in a massive file.
Wikileaks calls for a global boycott of eNom and its parent Demand Media, its owners, executives and their affiliated companies, interests and holdings, to make clear such behaviour can and will not be tolerated within the boundaries of the internet and its global community."
Censorship

Submission + - Wikileaks.org under fire (hostingprod.com)

Submitted by kan0r
kan0r writes: The transparency group Wikileaks.org currently seems to be under under heavy fire. The main Wikileaks.org DNS entry is unavailable. Rumor has it that this is due to a court case relating to a series of articles and documents released by Wikileaks about off shore trust structures in the Cayman Islands. The Wikileaks whistleblower, alledgedly former vice president of the Cayman Islands branch of swiss bank Julius Baer, states in the Wikileaks documents that the bank supported tax evasion and money laundering by its clients from around the world.

Wikileaks alternate names remained available, until Saturday when there seems to have been a heavy DDoS attack and a fire at the ISP. The documents in question are still available on other Wikileaks sites such as http://wikileaks.be/ and http://wikileaks.cx/ and are also mirrored on cryptome.org.
Privacy

Internet Group Declares War on Scientology 891

Posted by Zonk from the so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish dept.
Darkman, Walkin Dude writes "An internet group calling itself Anonymous has declared war on the Church of Scientology, in the form of an ominous posting to the YouTube site. 'In the statement, the group explained their goal as safeguarding the right to freedom of speech. "A spokesperson said that the group's goals include bringing an end to the financial exploitation of Church members and protecting the right to free speech, a right which they claim was consistently violated by the Church of Scientology in pursuit of its opponents." The press release also claimed that the Church of Scientology misused copyright and trademark law in order to remove criticism from websites including Digg and YouTube. The statement goes on to assert that the attacks from the group "will continue until the Church of Scientology reacts, at which point they will change strategy".' It should be noted that Slashdot users have had interactions with Scientology in the past as well."

Feed New Phytoplankton Model May Revise Warming Estimates (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed
Global climate models are missing a good chunk of plant information that could significantly alter long-term climate change predictions. A new technique for modeling phytoplankton -- microscopic plants in the upper layers of the Earth's waters -- could reveal a much more accurate picture.


The Internet

Social Computing and Badger's Paws 123

Posted by kdawson from the mushroom dept.
An anonymous reader writes "When Yahoo!'s Jeremy Zawodny recently asked What the heck is Web 2.0 anyway? he received a set of responses reminiscent of those garnered by The Register back in 2005, which famously concluded, based on its readers' responses, that Web 2.0 was made up of 12% badger's paws, 6% JavaScript worms, and 26% nothing. Nonetheless, as Social Computing (SoC) widens and deepens its footprint, another Jeremy — Jeremy Geelan — has asked if we are witnessing the death of 'Personal' Computing. SoC, Geelan notes, has already become an academic field of study. But perhaps Social Computing too is just badger's paws?"

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