WikiRebels: The Documentary Page #4

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Their next step is to publish an internal report

commissioned by the multinational trading company Trafigura,

who are alleged to have dumped toxic waste in the Ivory Coast

that caused tens of thousands of people to seek medical care.

'The Guardian' newspaper

was going to produce a big story on this,

and, as a result, they were gagged.

The company obtained a secret order in court

to gag all the press in the UK

from reporting anything related to the content of that report

and the fact that they had been gagged.

In the US, hackers discover

that the Republican presidential

candidate Sarah Palin

is apparently bypassing US transparency laws

by using a private email account to conduct government business.

WikiLeaks publishes her messages.

After just two years

the site's made public

over a million secret documents.

But WikiLeaks, as an organisation,

continues to be largely shrouded in secrecy.

Only Julian Assange and

Daniel Domscheit-Berg appear in public -

the latter under the pseudonym 'Schmidt'.

OK. Hello, everybody.

My name is Daniel Schmidt. This is Julian Assange.

We're here to make a short presentation

about the WikiLeaks project.

According to 'The National',

which is something we are kind of proud,

it's one of the last quotes we had,

so 'The National' has said that we have produced

more scoops in our short existence

than the 'The Washington Post' in the last 30 years.

Their publication activities

soon lead to counterattacks.

When WikiLeaks released lists of censored websites,

internet service providers in a number of countries,

including Thailand, China

and Iran, shut them down.

The more sensitive the material they publish,

the more often WikiLeaks

become the object of lawsuits and threats.

WikiLeaks now attracts the attention

of the US intelligence,

who, in a classified report,

claimed that the site is a threat to national security

and suggest ways of shutting it down.

Priority is put on finding

the individuals leaking the information.

The US intelligence, however,

only manage to keep the report secret a short while

before it's leaked to WikiLeaks.

It now becomes obvious that

WikiLeaks need to find more and safer havens

from which they can publish their information.

A sequence of events now starts

on an island in the middle of the North Atlantic,

which, while it leads to more censorship efforts,

will also create new opportunities for WikiLeaks.

October came, October 2008,

and the Icelandic banking system imploded.

It lost seventeen-eighteenths of its mass

over the course of about a week or two.

It was essentially one bank per week went bankrupt.

WikiLeaks obtain material that show

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