Wikileaks Is Spared a Shutdown As a Federal Judge Reverses
Course: How Broadly Will the First Amendment Protect A Website
Inviting Leaks of Confidential Documents?  Wednesday, Mar. 05,
2008  An extremely significant case is pending before San
Francisco-based U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White -- one that
has tested, and likely will continue to test, the scope of First
Amendment rights on the Internet.  The case involves, a website
that describes itself as "developing an uncensorable Wikipedia
for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis." Wikileaks
further explains that "[o]ur primary interest is in exposing
oppressive regimes in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Sub-Saharan
Africa and the Middle East, but we also expect to be of
assistance to people of all regions who wish to reveal unethical
behavior in their governments and corporations."  Judge White
attracted a lot of press for first ordering Wikileaks and its
domain name registrar, Dynadot, to disable its domain name, and
then, after a full hearing, re