WikiLeaks, part II

Doug wrote an earlier post about Wikileaks, so I'm here for some recent updates that happened in the last several days, and some important implications the leak of these documents on journalism today. The Columbia Journalism Review has a great rundown of some news outlets' coverage of the documents.

Here's the break down of what has happened since the release of more than 250,000 confidential U.S. State Department documents last week:

• It's been has been hit with denial-of-service notices, and kicked off the servers in the U.S. and France
• On Friday, U.S.-based Paypal cut off Wikileak's account, a major source of income
• Amazon has cut Wikileaks off its server service, it has now hired a Switzerland-based company to host its site
• As a result of this censorship, WL has been using its Twitter account to request followers to start "mirror sites"
• WL's founder Julian Assange is now wanted by the Swedish government on allegations of sex crimes, including rape