Wikileaks has published millions of
documents, and fought off more than 100 legal challenges since its inception in
2007. It is famous for posting, among other things, the U.S. military manual
for procedures at Guantánamo Bay, which included a list of inmates who would be
off-limits for the Red Cross, and the Australian Communications and Media
Authority's controversial blacklist of websites that would be banned under the
federal government's Internet censoring policy (turning out to be online poker
sites, YouTube links, and Wikipedia postings).
The groups’s officers announced its
plan to shutter the site in December unless it raised enough funds to continue
- but so far fundraising efforts have only netted $130,000, which amounts to a
little more than half its annual costs - not including pay for staff.
A statement
on the website claimed that Wikileaks had recently received hundreds of
thousands of documents pertaining to "corrupt banks, the US detainee
system, the Iraq war, China, the UN and many others," but no longer had
the resources to release them.
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