http://es.rsf.org Reporters Without Borders Reporters Without Borders
blockages conviction , cyber attacks and political pressure against cablegate.wikileaks.org, Wikileaks site dedicated to the publication of U.S. diplomatic cables. The organization is also concerned about statements by some U.S. political leaders with respect to Wikileaks and its founder, Julian Assange.
In late November, after the publication of diplomatic cables 250,000, Julian Assange had to remove your site from servers hosted in Sweden and the United States, Amazon.com company. This, in turn, received political pressure from the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and, in particular, Senator Joe Lieberman, to stop hosting the Australian hacker site. After being expelled from Amazon, the site found refuge for some of its contents Francia, en OVH. El Ministro de la Industria, encargado de la Economía Digital, Eric Besson, declaró el viernes 3 de diciembre que el gobierno francés estudiaba los medios para prohibir que se albergue al sitio. Recientemente también el proveedor del nombre de dominio de Wikileaks, EveryDNS, le canceló sus servicios. Varios países como Tailandia y China, en los que el respeto de la libertad de expresión y de información es más que tema de desconfianza, decidieron bloquear cablegate.wikileaks.org.
Es la primera vez que observamos un intento de censura a escala internacional de un sitio cuya primera vocación es la transparencia. No deja de asombrarnos el hecho de que países como Francia y Estados Unidos alineen suddenly its policy on freedom of expression in China. Remember, especially France and the United States does not concern the political power to decide if a site stays or not, but to justice.
In parallel, the U.S. authorities are considering the possibility of criminal action against Julian Assange. Two U.S. senators, Republican John Ensign and Scott Brown, and independent Sen. Joe Lieberman, deposited a bill to provide legal remedies against Wikileaks and its founder, illegal re-proposing the publication of names of informants, intelligence U.S.. This, while a criminal investigation is already underway and a number of U.S. political leaders have been asked to make every effort to arrest Julian Assange. Reporters Without Borders
can not but condemn this cruelty and reiterates its conviction that the Wikileaks site, according to the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, has the right to publish these documents and even done a useful work to make them available to journalists and readers.
emphasize that any restrictions on the freedom to disseminate this body of documents will affect the press as a whole, which has taken up widely the information provided by Wikileaks. Five major international newspapers have been active in editorial publication.
The organization also points out that it had acted under the principle of "net neutrality" whereby access providers and web hosting should not play any role in the choice of content put online.
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