FC~K YEAH!!!

Who'd have thought the Swiss would have stepped up to the plate? Kudos!

The people of Switzerland can be proud of their democracy.

... unlike the people of the US and UK who sleepwalk into the nightmare of repression by the state - in the name of the corrupt elite.

WAKE UP !

"Laurence Kaye, leader of the UK-based Pirate Party, tonight told the Guardian: "International Pirate Parties now have an integral role in allowing access to WikiLeaks. I wish some of our other politicians had the same guts."

A donation to both Wikileaks and the Pirate Party is needed me thinks...

The home of both FIFA and WikiLeaks. Now, there's a thing.

Finally, someone with some courage! Good for the Swiss! Thank you thank you!

> Everydns.net said the attacks [...] threatened "the stability of the EveryDNS.net infrastructure"

The problem with this claim is that if the attacks were targeting the Assange's webserver then why they haven't cached DNS lookups? If they cache them the attacks impact on the webserver - the real target - and not the DNS provider who is out of the battle field. It doesn't make sense. Why would anybody believe that they were attacking the DNS provider?

Let's hear it for Switzerland!

Good that there are others who will help ensure Wikileaks' exposure of craven hypocrisy lives on for yet another day.

Shame that neither Amazon nor Ebay (parent company of Paypal) have the same cojones

This is great news especially if they can keep to their word.

I'm so pleased Switzerland refuse to be bullied by the US! Maybe other countries could learn a thing or two from them..

It had to be the Swiss Pirate Party of all people didn't it? Bloody brilliant story.

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Suisse - douze points!

Seems to be easier to close down a PayPal account than Amazon one (still waiting from confirmation from the latter) - it took me less than 2 minutes and you can let them know why.

Show support for Wikileaks by closing down your PayPal account - you can do this on the "Contact Us" page.

No need to thank the entire country. Sufficient to thank the Swiss government because I bet if this issue was put on a referendum the citizens would have voted against helping Wikileaks.

At last... another little guy stands up to the war-mongering right wing rabblerousers in the US.

Did I say little guy? That should have said a bastion of freedom.

Well done Switzerland! Looks like the Yanks have been Swiss-roll-ed over.

for once, for once, proud to be...............

I would have never expected a coupling of Wikileaks(secret divulger) and anything Swiss (secret keeper). It's very nice to be surprised in this way.

Thank you to Switch and all concerned for your courage. Long may it continue.

Thank you to our Guardian for having the fearlessness, determination and courage to champion what is right.

Fantastic news!!! The stand taken by the Swiss will certainly highlight the issues of censorship in the US and its allies.
Well done Switzerland,....your integrity should be an inspiration and a model for democracy to other countries which seems to have lost their way.

Hopp schwiiz!!

I wonder whether the attack on the site is from China.

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Switch is a not-for-profit, unlike Amazon or PayPal - I guess they are the equivalent of our Nominet.

Will be good to watch Lieberman huff and puff - but there's sod all he can actually do to a non-profit in a foreign country.

Woo Hoo for the Gardian, the Swiss, and the New York Times. Keep a viable democracy informed.

Help Wikileaks: Hosting resources needed!

http://46.59.1.2/mass-mirror.html#cablegate

If u have a unix-based server which is hosting a website on the Internet and you want to give wikileaks some of your hosting resources, you can help!

PS. donations https://donations.datacell.com/

Wikipedia's mysterious insurance file:
https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5723136/WikiLeaks_insurance

Love the Swiss, chocolates and all.

Allez les suisse!

Congratulations to the Swiss and Switch and all involved. Most of us here in the states are good people, as is true for the rest of the World. Many of us recognize the excesses of our government. I am encouraged by the extraordinary response this subject has received around the globe.

There is at least one Congressman who has publicly applauded these events and likely more who are still silent. If we all maintain this momentum we will achieve change for the better. Thanks to all of you and The Guardian for this forum.

Thank You ...Thank you very much on behalf of billions of voiceless souls...

Great news! If the USA keeps attacking freedom of speech IN OTHER COUNTRIES, who knows maybe wikileaks will be forced to move to Cuba? or Mexico? Perhaps a 5 million watt 24/7/365 talk show from either Cuba or Mexico discussing the latest lies, stealing and criminality? It makes one wonder what the USA is worried about?

I speculate the USA censors are getting ready for NEXT month when we find out which US politicians were being bribed to Give trillions of dollars of tax payer money to the banks.

I bet "that" (Wikileaks data on US banksters) is the real problem, not Hillary's order to "diplomats" to get credit card pin numbers and hair/DNA samples from U.N. Secretary Ban Ki-Moon which is a violation of UN laws?

Thanks Switzerland!

We have hope-not all lapdogs of the US of A!

Huge thank to Guardian as well.

;)

Seems to be easier to close down a PayPal account than Amazon one (still waiting from confirmation from the latter) - it took me less than 2 minutes and you can let them know why.

Guess what? here's mine!!!

Hello,

I am sorry to hear that you wish to close your account. Please read the information below, as some points may impact your account.

Once your account is closed, it is no longer accessible by you or anyone else. In addition, the following will no longer be available to you:

* your Amazon.co.uk Marketplace account
* your accounts at Amazon.com, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.co.jp or Amazon.ca
* your Wish List, or About You page
* your Amazon.co.uk Associates account
* your Author account

So long!!!

Also check this out!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXbCwq4ewBU

Enjoy!!!

Write to press@switch.ch to congratulate them!

DO IT NOW!

Seems like curbing wikileaks will become a bigger problem than the cablegate itself !
not a paypal anymore.

Funny everyone praises the swiss. A country known to keep billions of coruprt leaders money. I guess wikileaks a website that refuses or dares to publish anything against corrupt leaders in Africa, middleeast or Asia who have stolen billions from the cictzens is happy to have a base in switzerland

The recent actions by the USA bring into question whether of not they are really a true democracy or a severely controlled right wing democracy. We have seen in the past where "democracies" have turned out to be historic despots.
Our futures must not be run by the US, by their banks.oil companies,military,spies,technology restrictions, this may very well be a significant turning point in the development of a better world if we can only bring the far right US to heel.

With Paypal I shut it down and told them why. With Amazon you have to request that your account is removed using the email address you registered with. Anyway, two accounts gone today, I'll do the same to any other company that does anything similar.

Kudos to Switch. And OVH which's reply to requests closing wikileaks site was:

"It's neither for the political world nor for OVH to call for or to decide on a site's closure, but for the justice system. That's how it should work under the rule of law."

+ I closed my paypal account today and will be closing my ebay account as soon as I get my last purchases done couple days ago.

US and some others like France are trying to block access to a website just because it published things they did not want others to see.
It is completely against the ideals of openness, freedom of press etc. US is trying to promote in the world. Moreover, it is the kind of thing that China is often accused of doing.

Wikileaks did not steal any information. It is unfortunate that Us could not protect the information that it considered very sensitive. I sympathize with them in that they are the victim of a theft. But it was not committed by wikileaks.
So the responsible thing to do is to device strategies to better secure things that they consider sensitive, think about ways to make foreign policy dealings less dependent on secrecy, and leave wikileaks alone.

Don't forget to donate money to Wikileaks, and to close down any accounts with Amazon, Ebay or Paypal.... in solidarity

not many chances you get to be proud you`re swiss, now is there?
well, here`s one! and I am!

...and by the way, you can actually be swiss, endorse wikileaks...and oppose minarets!

there`s political diversity for you, eh?

Can someone confirm this...

http://twitter.com/mikkohypponen

"There are reports of Wikileaks-related blogs being removed from Blogger (a Google service)."

Mikko is the head of one of the biggest Internet Security Software companies F-secure. So seems in that sense credible.

I forgot to add Kudos to Switzerland, their registrar and the Swiss host Switch for courageously acting with reason.

Thanking the Swiss and hope that many of us do not do more business with Amazon, Paypal and the rest of the cowards.

Thank you.

I have closed by PayPal and EBay accounts. Thanks to the Swiss government for their courage. Those that do not support WikiLeaks do not support the truth. I would go as far as to say that anyone that supports efforts to close down WikiLeaks is desperate to cover their @ss ... and causes me to immediately become suspicious of their intentions. Strength to Julian Assange.

perhaps time soon to update all the Guardian's wikileaks links .. e.g. in the 'more on the US embassy cables' section of this Guardian area

Kudos to all @ the Guardian for the excellent explanatory help in interpretation, to the leaker(s) themselves for helping us to decrypt political cant and to Wikileaks for an awesome resource. Another link: unofficial WL information resource.

so paypal/ ebay the well know facilitator off knocked off goods and touted tickets, does nt do anything to prevent those illegal/ immoral activities - is now concerned about not for profit activity that depending on your take/ country, is not illegal

I emailed ebay a month ago asking what they're going do about the influx of take that tickets being resold illegally at higher than face value and against the conditions of original sale - no response!

Thank you Switzerland! In times of difficulty, you can truly see who your friends are.