Collapsed UK Bank Attempts to Censor Wikileaks

[Bob Hubbard]

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Collapsed UK Bank Attempts to Censor Wikileaks

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday January 21, @09:00AM
from the this'll-only-happen-more dept.

James Hardine writes "Wikileaks has released a couple of hilarious legal demands over a confidential briefing memo entitled Project Wing — Northern Rock Executive Summary. Northern Rock Bank (UK) collapsed spectacularly late last year on the back of the sub-prime lending crisis and was re-floated by the Bank of England at a cost of over £24bn. The memo was used by the Financial Times, the Telegraph and others. It attracted a number of censorship injunctions, as reported by the Guardian, which only Wikileaks continues to withstand. In their legal demand to Wikileaks, Northern Rock's well-known media lawyers, Schillings, invoke the DMCA & WIPO, claim it'll be 10 years in prison for Wikileaks operators for not following the UK injunction, but then, incredibly, refuse to hand over a copy of the order unless Wikileaks' London lawyers promise not to give it to Wikileaks. Finally they claim copyright and more — on their demands! The letters raise a serious issue about the climate of censorship in the UK, where one can apparently easily obtain a censorship order — a judge made law — that everyone is meant to obey, but no one is meant to know."

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An interesting read. "We have this court order, but you can't see it unless you promise not to tell anyone what it says."

 

[MA-Caver]

Ok, I promise. Cross my heart and hope to die -- stick a needle in my eye.

Now can I read it?

 

[terryl965]

Ok, I promise. Cross my heart and hope to die -- stick a needle in my eye.

Now can I read it?

Well I'm a college graduate so I cannot read :rofl: