Drew Wilson
February 11th, 2010, 12:05 AM
For some weeks the Wikileaks website has been shut down, instead being replaced with a single page request for donations.
There are however been issues with people making donations. For instance, PayPal shut down the Wikileaks account for a few days and a contributor complained that his credit card was temporarily suspended after making a donation.
Viewing the wikileaks website we still see the request for donations page, however the Tweet, from late last week clearly states "Achieved min. funraising [sic] goal. ($200k/600k); we're back fighting for another year, even if we have to eat rice to do it."
Clearly the site has raised only a third of the money necessary to properly operate but the organisation that has brokered the release of a variety of 'hidden' materials including the ACMA blacklist, the Sarah Palin emails, the Guantanamo Bay operations manual and the 9/11 pager messages will definitely be back.
More... (http://www.itwire.com/information-technology-news/internet/36647-wikileaks-is-back-from-the-brink)
I wish something like the NYTimes would fund a project like this.
Nice to see that things are looking better for the site now.
There are however been issues with people making donations. For instance, PayPal shut down the Wikileaks account for a few days and a contributor complained that his credit card was temporarily suspended after making a donation.
Viewing the wikileaks website we still see the request for donations page, however the Tweet, from late last week clearly states "Achieved min. funraising [sic] goal. ($200k/600k); we're back fighting for another year, even if we have to eat rice to do it."
Clearly the site has raised only a third of the money necessary to properly operate but the organisation that has brokered the release of a variety of 'hidden' materials including the ACMA blacklist, the Sarah Palin emails, the Guantanamo Bay operations manual and the 9/11 pager messages will definitely be back.
More... (http://www.itwire.com/information-technology-news/internet/36647-wikileaks-is-back-from-the-brink)
I wish something like the NYTimes would fund a project like this.
Nice to see that things are looking better for the site now.