WikiRebels: The Documentary Page #3

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in the world at WikiLeaks' disposal.

What's needed now is a physical haven.

Hackers linked to the Swedish file

sharing site Pirate Bay

have what they need -

considerable technical skills

in a place where

freedom of speech is unusually free.

A lot of the countries in today's world

do not have really strong laws for the media anymore.

But a few countries -

like, for instance, Belgium,

also the United States with the First Amendment,

and especially, for example, Sweden -

have very strong laws protecting the media

and the work of investigative or general journalists.

So, from our perspective, this is something.

If there are any Swedes here,

you have to make sure that your country

is really one of the strongholds of freedom of information.

Sweden has an enviable,

although far-from-perfect record

in protecting publications.

It has a practical record within the past few years

of protecting internet publications

against censorship.

And it's precisely Sweden's

unique freedom of speech law

that prompts WikiLeaks

to locate their main site

in this unpretentious basement

in one of Stockholm's inner suburbs.

PRQ offer their customers total secrecy.

Their systems prevent anyone

from eavesdropping

either WikiLeaks chat pages

or finding out who sent what to who.

PRQ have a track record of

been uh...the hardest ISP you can find in the world.

There's just no-one else

that bothers less about lawyers harassing them,

about content they are hosting.

And it's just the attitude that, let's say,

works very well with

what WikiLeaks was set out to do.

One reason why WikiLeaks need PRQ is

that their operations

are protected by Sweden's strict freedom of expression laws -

laws which PRQ exploit to the full.

And we aren't talking about any old information.

It's from these servers at PRQ

that WikiLeaks has,

for example, made public a manual

from the United States Guantanamo Bay detention centre.

A military manual leaked on the internet

is revealing details of the way

terror suspects are being treated

at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

It tells of the use of solitary

confinement and humiliation

to break down the detainees mentally.

Human rights groups have for years

been asking the US administration

for access to this manual.

If you censor

important material of this type,

we're not just gonna criticise you,

we're going to take the material

that you try to censor

and we're going to spray it all over the world.

And we're gonna stick it in our archives

in a way that it's never gonna disappear,

and encourage everyone to get copies of it.

WikiLeaks' battle against censorship

knows no geographical frontiers.

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