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WikiLeaks In New Legal Battle

Posted by Soulskill on from the sounds-like-something-needs-to-be-leaked dept.

geegel writes "The US Justice Department is now fighting in court demands from three WikiLeaks associates to disclose the names of several electronic service platforms that received requests to hand over user information. This comes after Twitter obtained a court order to unseal the demands in order to notify the three persons. The current legal row has seen both the ACLU and the EFF provide legal assistance to the WikiLeaks associates."

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  1. Re:Hey Slashdot! by Soulskill · · Score: 5, Informative

    We haven't received any such requests since I've been working here, so no, nothing's been turned over to the Feds or anybody else. I'm not aware of any requests happening before that either, but I couldn't say for sure.

    The closest we've come, to my knowledge, was a DMCA takedown request after copyrighted Scientology material was posted in a comment. The comment ended up being deleted, but I think the post pretty clearly illustrates how we felt about that. There was also a time Microsoft asked us to remove some comments back in 2000. Those comments stayed in place.

    I actually have no idea if we have a "policy" for such requests, since it hasn't come up. If it were up to me, I'd tell them to get stuffed. I suspect CmdrTaco would as well. Honestly, I don't know what records we'd have that would be worth requesting.

  2. Re:So many 503s by Soulskill · · Score: 5, Informative

    We're working on the 503 problems. Sorry it's been such a pain.