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[ NNSquad ] "Victory for WikiLeaks in Iceland's Parliament"
----- Forwarded message from Dave Farber <dave@farber.net> ----- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:53:13 -0400 From: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net> Subject: [IP] "Victory for WikiLeaks in Iceland's Parliament" Reply-To: dave@farber.net To: ip <ip@v2.listbox.com> Reply to. dave@farber.net Begin forwarded message: > From: Gabe Goldberg <gabe@gabegold.com> > Date: June 17, 2010 11:51:02 AM EDT > To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net> > Subject: "Victory for WikiLeaks in Iceland's Parliament" > > "Victory for WikiLeaks in Iceland's Parliament" > By ROBERT MACKEY > > At 4 a.m. on Thursday, Iceland's Parliament, the Althing, voted unanimously in favor of a package of legislation aimed at making the country a haven for freedom of expression by offering legal protection to whistle-blower Web sites like WikiLeaks, which helped to craft the proposal. > > As the Web site Ice News reports, "One of the inspirations for the proposal was the dramatic August 2009 gagging of of Iceland's national broadcaster, RUV by Iceland's then largest bank, Kaupthing." > > One of the sponsors of the proposal in the Althing, Birgitta Jonsdottir, told my colleague Noam Cohen in February that Iceland hoped to become "the inverse of a tax haven," by offering journalists and publishers some of the most aggressive protections for free speech and investigative journalism in the world. "They are trying to make everything opaque," she said. "We are trying to make it transparent." > > http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/17/victory-for-wikileaks-in-icelands-parliament/?hp > > ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ----- End forwarded message -----