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Internet Society on the Wikileaks issue</H3>
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<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 5px; FONT: 12px Arial, sans-serif">Recently, we have
witnessed the effective disappearance from the Internet of a website made
infamous through international press coverage and political intrigue.</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 5px; FONT: 12px Arial, sans-serif">The Internet Society is
founded upon key principles of free expression and non discrimination that are
essential to preserve the openness and utility of the Internet. We believe that
this incident dramatically illustrates that those principles are currently at
risk.</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 5px; FONT: 12px Arial, sans-serif">Recognizing the content
of the <A href="http://wikileaks.org">wikileaks.org</A> website is the subject
of concern to a variety of individuals and nations, we nevertheless believe it
must be subject to the same laws and policies of availability as all Internet
sites. Free expression should not be restricted by governmental or private
controls over computer hardware or software, telecommunications infrastructure,
or other essential components of the Internet.</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 5px; FONT: 12px Arial, sans-serif">Resilience and
cooperation are built into the Internet as a design principle. The cooperation
among several organizations has ensured that the impact on the Wikileaks
organizational website has not prevented all access to Wikileaks material.
This further underscores that the removal of a domain is an ineffective
tool to suppress communication, merely serving to undermine the integrity of the
global Internet and its operation.</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 5px; FONT: 12px Arial, sans-serif">Unless and until
appropriate laws are brought to bear to take the <A
href="http://wikileaks.org">wikileaks.org</A> domain down legally, technical
solutions should be sought to reestablish its proper presence, and appropriate
actions taken to pursue and prosecute entities (if any) that acted maliciously
to take it off the air.</P>
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