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WikiLeaks
website moves to Switzerland after US clampdown
Friday December 03, 2010 08:42:55 PM ,
DPA
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Geneva: Whistleblower
website WikiLeaks, which is in the middle of releasing
confidential diplomatic documents, emigrated Friday to a new Swiss
address after its US-based internet hosting service was shut down.
The new hosting is located at www.wikileaks.ch, a site registered
by the Swiss Pirate Party.
On late Thursday, the website www.wikileaks.org went down, with
the owner of the hosting services saying a denial of service
attack had forced it to take the move.
Early last month, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said he feared
for his safety and might seek asylum in Switzerland.
According to the Swiss news agency ATS, the group has also
reserved for good measure www.wikileaks.li, using a domain
allotted to the tiny principality Liechtenstein, nestled between
Switzerland and Austria.
Earlier this week, Amazon stopped hosting the site, after coming
under fire from members of the US Congress, including Senator Joe
Lieberman.
"If Amazon are so uncomfortable with the first amendment, they
should get out of the business of selling books," WikiLeaks
retorted via its Twitter feed.
The company responded by saying it removed the site because
WikiLeaks did not own the content of the leaked US diplomatic
cables, and that the group could not have "redacted in such a way
as to ensure that they weren't putting innocent people in
jeopardy".
On Nov 28, WikiLeaks began publishing 251,287 US embassy cables,
the latest trove of confidential US documents to be made public.
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