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Why Is Wikileaks Blocked In Thailand

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I can imagine that there will be a lot of politicians wanting it banned where they are after the latest batch of papers they are about to release. Ha Ha Ha :cheesy: :cheesy: :cheesy:

That will teach the two faced hypocrites to say what they actually mean next time.

Can you imagine a time when politicians actually told the truth :o

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Just went to the site. No problem accessing it with TOT.

Not here, I'm using CAT CDMA and http://wikileaks.org redirects to the mict sticker.

When I used your link, I got the "This website has been blocked by ICT" page. But when I accessed it by clicking on the first result in a Yahoo search, it still goes through.. (http://wikileaks.org/)

Edit: Just checked the link I put, and it is blocked. But I can access the same page via Yahoo search results. That's strange..

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Just went to the site. No problem accessing it with TOT.

Not here, I'm using CAT CDMA and http://wikileaks.org redirects to the mict sticker.

When I used your link, I got the "This website has been blocked by ICT" page. But when I accessed it by clicking on the first result in a Yahoo search, it still goes through.. (http://wikileaks.org/)

Edit: Just checked the link I put, and it is blocked. But I can access the same page via Yahoo search results. That's strange..

That's strange ! Just checked it, via Google it goes to mict sticker, via Yahoo search it opens normally.

Hopefully we did not awake sleeping dogs ! :lol: From now on Yahoo is my default search engine, hahaha...

It's interesting.

The above links are blocked on TRUE BKK but use "www." and it works.

You're right... that may be the reason, Yahoo links to www prefix, while Google doesn't ?

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For me it looks like wikileaks is down for maintenance.

Mirror sites here, not blocked by MICT

We are sorry,

WikiLeaks is currently underoing scheduled maintenance. We will be back online as soon as possible.

For status updates you can follow our twitter feed.

You can still visit our IRC channel:

Using the web interface available here

Using regular IRC client, connect to chat.wikileaks.org SSL port 9999

Interesting New Yorker Article/Profile --> NO SECRETS - Julian Assange’s mission for total transparency.

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Crushdepth Ruby Member

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It's blocked by order of CRES on CSLoxinfo.

An access to such information has been temporarily ceased

due to the order of the Centre for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation (CRES)

under the authority of emergency decree B.E 2548 (A.D. 2005).

But actually I think it was blocked before that. There is some stuff on Wikileaks that is *extremely* unacceptable re. the monarchy.

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I can imagine that there will be a lot of politicians wanting it banned where they are after the latest batch of papers they are about to release. Ha Ha Ha :cheesy: :cheesy: :cheesy:

That will teach the two faced hypocrites to say what they actually mean next time.

Can you imagine a time when politicians actually told the truth :o

What a cheesy reply!

Who are those "politicians wanting it banned" and "two faced hypocrites" you referring to?

As far as I can see, your post is hypocritical, timid, and not to the topic.

Be more cautious next time.

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Re: Wikileaks

I'm in Bangkok on True.

When trying to connect to wikileaks.org I get an:

An access to such information has been temporarily ceased

due to the order of the Centre for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation (CRES)

under the authority of emergency decree B.E 2548 (A.D. 2005).

But, can access without a problem to www.wikileaks.org

And I do agree with the comment made by Crushdepth:

There is some stuff on Wikileaks that is *extremely* unacceptable re. the monarchy.

The same is true in regard to wikipedia.org - the access to an article about the king is denied.

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Wikileaks 'hacked ahead of secret US document release'

Whistle-blowing website Wikileaks says it has come under attack from a computer-hacking operation, ahead of a release of secret US documents.

"We are currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack," it said on its Twitter feed earlier. It added that several newspapers will go ahead and publish the documents released to them by Wikileaks even if the site goes down. The US state department has said the release will put many lives at risk.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has said the US authorities are afraid of being held to account. Wikileaks has said the release of classified messages sent by US embassies will be bigger than past releases on Afghanistan and Iraq. The newspapers set to publish details of the US embassy cables include Spain's El Pais, France's Le Monde, Germany's Speigel, the UK's Guardian and the New York Times. The latest leak is expected to include documents covering US dealings and diplomats' confidential views of countries including Australia, Britain, Canada, Israel, Russia and Turkey.

"The material that we are about to release covers essentially every major issue in every country in the world," Mr Assange told reporters by video link on Sunday. A journalist with Britain's Guardian newspaper said the files include an unflattering US assessment of UK PM David Cameron. Simon Hoggart told the BBC: "There is going to be some embarrassment certainly for Gordon Brown but even more so for David Cameron who was not very highly regarded by the Obama administration or by the US ambassador here."

No-one has been charged with passing the diplomatic files to the website but suspicion has fallen on US Army private Bradley Manning, an intelligence analyst arrested in Iraq in June and charged over an earlier leak of classified US documents to Mr Assange's organisation.

'Illegally obtained'

The US government has written to Mr Assange, urging him not release the documents. The letter from the US state department's legal adviser Harold Koh said the release of classified state department documents was against US law and would put "countless" lives at risk. Mr Assange is said to have asked which individuals would be put at risk by the leak and offered to negotiate over limited redactions. In response, Mr Koh demanded that Wikileaks return official documents to the US government.

"We will not engage in a negotiation regarding the further release or dissemination of illegally obtained US government classified materials," he said in the letter. Mr Koh's letter adds that the publication of the documents would endanger the lives of "countless" individuals - from journalists to human rights activists and bloggers - and put US military operations at risk.

Wikileaks earlier this week said that its next release of documents would be nearly seven times larger than the nearly 400,000 Pentagon documents relating to the Iraq war it published in October.

Wikileaks argues that the site's previous releases shed light on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. They included allegations of torture by Iraqi forces and reports that suggested 15,000 additional civilian deaths in Iraq.

Source: BBC News

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Wikileaks release of embassy cables reveals US concerns

Whistle-blowing website Wikileaks has released extracts from secret messages sent by US embassies which give an insight into current global concerns.

They include reports of some Arab leaders - including Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah - urging the US to attack Iran and end its nuclear weapons programme. Other concerns include the security of Pakistani nuclear material that could be used to make an atomic weapon. The widespread use of computer hacking by China's government is also reported.

The US government condemned the release of the documents, which number in the hundreds of thousands, saying they put the lives of diplomats and others at risk. The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, countered by saying the US authorities were afraid of being held to account. The leaked US embassy cables, published at length in newspapers including the New York Times and the UK's Guardian, also reportedly include accounts of:

  • Iran attempting to adapt North Korean rockets for use as long-range missiles
  • Corruption within the Afghan government, with concerns heightened when a senior official was found to be carrying more than $50m in cash on a foreign trip
  • Bargaining to empty the Guantanamo Bay prison camp - including Slovenian diplomats being told to take in a freed prisoner if they wanted to secure a meeting with President Barack Obama
  • Germany being warned in 2007 not to enforce arrest warrants for US Central Intelligence Agency officers involved in an operation in which an innocent German citizen with the same name as a suspected militant was abducted and held in Afghanistan
  • US officials being instructed to spy on the UN's leadership by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
  • The very close relationship between Russian PM Vladimir Putin and his Italian counterpart Silvio Berlusconi
  • Alleged links between the Russian government and organised crime
  • Yemen's president talking to then US Mid-East commander General David Petraeus about attacks on Yemeni al-Qaeda bases and saying: "We'll continue saying the bombs are ours, not yours"
  • Criticism of UK politicians including Prime Minister David Cameron
  • Faltering US attempts to prevent Syria from supplying arms to Hezbollah in Lebanon

The leaked embassy cables are both contemporary and historical, and include a 1989 note from a US diplomat in Panama City musing about the options open to Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega and referring to him as "a master of survival" - the author apparently had no idea that US forces would invade a week later and arrest Noriega.

In a statement, the White House said: "Such disclosures put at risk our diplomats, intelligence professionals, and people around the world who come to the United States for assistance in promoting democracy and open government. "President Obama supports responsible, accountable, and open government at home and around the world, but this reckless and dangerous action runs counter to that goal."

Earlier, Wikileaks said it had come under attack from a computer-hacking operation. "We are currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack," it reported on its Twitter feed.

No-one has been charged with passing the diplomatic files to the website but suspicion has fallen on US Army private Bradley Manning, an intelligence analyst arrested in Iraq in June and charged over an earlier leak of classified US documents to Mr Assange's organisation.

Wikileaks argues that the site's previous releases shed light on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Source: BBC News

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