It's now clear that WikiLeaks and its leadership are under a coordinated attack from national governments and from the companies it depends on to stay online and receive donations. All because they dared to publish information the U.S. does not believe the world should have.
Before I go on - I do understand the argument made by many (including the entirety of our political and media elite, but also some well-meaning individuals) that some secrecy is appropriate, particularly concerning diplomatic matters. I agree that if we lived under an ideal democratic government that only kept secrets when it truly must, then it would seem irresponsible to release communications of this type. But that's not the government we live under - instead, our gov't very often fails to act in the public interest, and favors secrecy over transparency to an extreme degree.
In other words, I support WikiLeaks. Still, I might not have sent them any of my money, but when it became clear that certain entities wanted to remove my RIGHT to donate, that pushed me over the edge...
First, amazon.com took wikileaks offline by removing the site from its hosting servers. Later, everydns.net killed the wikileaks.org domain name. That's why nothing happens when I navigate to wikileaks.org.
So WikiLeaks is gone forever, right? Hardly. Although I can't load WikiLeaks at the Swiss address it may try migrating to (wikileaks.ch), it's currently still online elsewhere, including the UK address wikileeks.org.uk (not actually a British website where you can upload recipes containing onion-like vegetables), which currently redirects me to 46.59.1.2. There are other mirrors out there too, and it may prove quite difficult for governments and corporate allies to keep it offline everywhere.
Of course, the other recent corporate blow against WikiLeaks was the decision by eBay-affiliated PayPal to suspend the account WikiLeaks was using to receive donations. This may deter many would-be donors from successfully donating to WikiLeaks, but importantly there are still several ways to contribute. The easiest method is to make a credit card donation via Datacell Switzerland. I just donated, and it was so cathartic that I had to come here and write a diary about it!
So - maybe you'd like to support WikiLeaks too? Just realize though, it makes Joe Lieberman VERY ANGRY when you do that.
Or at the very least, maybe you'll avoid Amazon and eBay/PayPal when doing your Christmas shopping this year. :)
P.S.
Another cause worth considering is the legal defense of Bradley Manning, former military officer and the man truly responsible for these cables (and the Iraqi civilian casualty video) seeing the light of day. He said that he wanted to expose the way the first world exploits the third. He could end up spending the rest of his life in jail.
UPDATE: Top of the rec list? What happened??? I stayed here a while, then left when the diary seemed to go quiet... But hey, thanks for the support! This may inspire me to launch my "Chamber of Commerce boycott" diary series!
UPDATE2: Added some Lieberman references, per suggestion from shenderson. I'm gonna have to sign off for the night pretty soon here. A lot of excellent comments below - thanks for the inspiration! Let's keep pouring light into the dark rooms of government (and corporate boardrooms too)!
From one of several important comments by sixthestate:
Here's a list of the Wikileaks websites that Wikileaks has posted to their twitter feed. Right now, it appears only wikileaks.nl is available. The IP address you listed, 46.59.1.2, is currently the IP address that wikileaks.nl points to.
First tweet from December 3rd:
• 88.80.13.160
Second tweet from December 3rd:
• wikileaks.ch
Third tweet from December 3rd:
• wikileaks.de
• wikileaks.fi
• wikileaks.nl
There are also domain names that appear to be owned by supporters, such as Wikileeks.org.uk (which you mentioned) and wikileaks.dd19.de: