How the Barbra Streisand Effect keeps WikiLeaks online
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PARIS — Mirror sites are keeping WikiLeaks up and running despite the loss of its original wikileaks.org address, shut down by an American provider: welcome to the Barbra Streisand Effect.
The elusive, intangible nature of the Internet has allowed the whistle-blowing Web site to keep a step ahead of its enemies.
For after its original web address was shut down, it was able to move to a second home at a Swiss address (http://www.wikileaks.ch).
And in less than 24 hours, dozens of mirror image sites were up and running across the Internet.
Some were set up by WikiLeaks, others by computer-savvy sympathizers determined to keep the information the Web site is leaking online.
For the mirror sites are just that: a replica of the contents of the original site, ensuring that the thousands of US diplomatic cables WikiLeaks has been leaking since last Sunday remain available for inspection.
By 1630 GMT several hundred WikiLeaks mirror sites were listed at one online directory (http://bluetouff.com/2010/12/03/acceder-a-wikileaks/)..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101206com3.html
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