This is an editorial that was published on wikileaks. org website.
It's basically an article that talks about where Google is subpoenaed to turn over private information.
I think that many of the readers here on the forum are finding that this sort of news and expose' are becoming more and more familiar.
In our case, b/c we download and upload material to distribute amongst our peers on torrent sites, onto IRC, over to eMule, etc...etc.., this matter really does concern us, yes??
check it out, though:
By Robert X. Cringely (InfoWorld)
Over the last few weeks I've spent probably too much time thinking and writing about the Liskula Cohen libel case........
................But today brings news of a case where anonymity on the Net absolutely needs to be protected. It too involves a court subpoena ordering Google to turn over private information; in this case, the names of the owners of tcijournal@gmail.com, the e-mail address for The TCI Journal, a muckracking news site based in the Turks & Caicos Islands.......... The TCI Journal mostly appears to have been reporting on an inquiry into government corruption
and reprinting letters from readers about the topic.
Lawyers for the developer wanted the site to redact any mentions of the developer in its reports, which to its credit The TCI Journal declined to do
and then a tad bit more about the usual goings-on: corruption.
According to Wikileaks, which knows a thing or two about floating money laundering operations and whistle-blower anonymity, TCI's anonymous journalism...
... culminated in a dramatic UK governance takeover of the Islands on August 14.
A trail of evidence dug up by the TCI Journal, a UK commission of inquiry, and others, showed that foreign property developers were giving millions in secret loans and payments to senior Islander politicians, including an alleged $500,000 cash payment to the Island's now former Premier, Michael Misick
un-frak'in-believable.
I don't exactly know the meaning of 'muckracking', but I think it might involve something like in the way of slandering and/or abuse of some kind unto another....you'll have to correct me if I'm wrong.
Here's the link.
check it out.
If your really interested in internet anonimity, the article isn't all that long to read. But it is interesting, though.
enjoy :)
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