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drewkitty ([personal profile] drewkitty) wrote2008-02-18 10:23 pm

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This is what censorship looks like:

http://wikileaks.cx/wiki/images/Dynadot-injunction.pdf

http://88.80.13.160/wiki/Wikileaks.org_under_injunction

No part of this order forbids publicizing the order itself.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION



BANK JULIUS BAER & CO. LTD, a
Swiss entity; and JULIUS BAER BANK
AND TRUST CO. LTD, a Cayman Island
entity,
Plaintiffs,
vs.
WIKILEAKS, an entity of unknown form;
WIKILEAKS.ORG, an entity of unknown
form; DYNADOT, LLC, a California
limited liability company; and DOES 1
through 10, inclusive,
Defendants.
Case No. CV08-0824 JSW
[PROPOSED] ORDER GRANTING
PERMANENT INJUNCTION
The Court, having considered the stipulation between Plaintiffs JULIUS BAER & CO.
LTD and JULIUS BAER BANK AND TRUST CO. LTD. (collectively “Julius Baer” and/or
“Plaintiff’s”) and Defendant DYNADOT LLC (“Dynadot”), the complaint, and other papers,
evidence, and arguments presented by the parties, and finding that immediate harm will result to
Plaintiffs in the absence of injunctive relief,
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED:
1. Dynadot shall immediately lock the wikileaks.org domain name to prevent transfer
of the domain name to a different domain registrar, and shall immediately disable the
wikileaks.org domain name and account to prevent access to and any changes from being made to
the domain name and account information, until further order of this Court.
2. Dynadot shall immediately disable the wikileaks.org domain name and account
such that the optional privacy who-is service for the domain name and account remains turned
off, until further order of this Court.
3. Dynadot shall preserve a true and correct copy of both current and any and all
prior or previous administrative and account records and data for the wikileaks.org domain name
and account.
4. Dynadot shall immediately clear and remove all DNS hosting records for the
wikileaks.org domain name and prevent the domain name from resolving to the wikileaks.org
website or any other website or server other than a blank park page, until further order of this
Court.

[and so on]

[identity profile] alohawolf.livejournal.com 2008-02-19 07:37 am (UTC)(link)
HOLY FUCK....

this isnt supposed to be able to happen here.

And the best part?

[identity profile] wolfwings.livejournal.com 2008-02-19 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
They notified the lawyers for WikiLeaks a matter of hours before the hearing, by e-mail, and their "pre-litigation California council" that did manage to attend the meeting was "asked to leave the court room."

So WikiLeaks was unrepresented at the hearing, which meant they lost by default like a cop that no-shows for a traffic hearing. And the injunction wasn't even written by the judge, it was written, in whole, and accepted without amendment by the judge, from a Cayman Island bank lawyer.