03-12-2010, 08:54 PM
France Trying to Ban WikiLeaks from Servers
Updated: Friday, 03 Dec 2010, 7:21 AM CST
Published : Friday, 03 Dec 2010, 7:21 AM CST
(AFP) - French industry minister Eric Besson called Friday for WikiLeaks to be banned from French servers when the whistle-blower website ended up there after being kicked out of the United States.
"This internet site ... is apparently since Thursday partly hosted by French host OVH," Besson wrote to the CGIET, the highest body governing the internet in France. "This situation is unacceptable."
"France cannot host internet sites that violate the confidentiality of diplomatic relations and put in danger people protected by diplomatic secrecy," Besson wrote, asking the CGIET to find a way to remove the site.
WikiLeaks was down for six hours Friday after its US server, EveryDNS.net, took it offline. The whistleblower had also been shunned by host Amazon.com Inc.
Shortly after the site went back up on http://www.wikileaks.ch site, the group tweeted, "WikiLeaks moves to Switzerland."
It was quickly pointed out, however, that the new domain name suggested that the site itself was still hosted in Sweden and France.
Updated: Friday, 03 Dec 2010, 7:21 AM CST
Published : Friday, 03 Dec 2010, 7:21 AM CST
(AFP) - French industry minister Eric Besson called Friday for WikiLeaks to be banned from French servers when the whistle-blower website ended up there after being kicked out of the United States.
"This internet site ... is apparently since Thursday partly hosted by French host OVH," Besson wrote to the CGIET, the highest body governing the internet in France. "This situation is unacceptable."
"France cannot host internet sites that violate the confidentiality of diplomatic relations and put in danger people protected by diplomatic secrecy," Besson wrote, asking the CGIET to find a way to remove the site.
WikiLeaks was down for six hours Friday after its US server, EveryDNS.net, took it offline. The whistleblower had also been shunned by host Amazon.com Inc.
Shortly after the site went back up on http://www.wikileaks.ch site, the group tweeted, "WikiLeaks moves to Switzerland."
It was quickly pointed out, however, that the new domain name suggested that the site itself was still hosted in Sweden and France.
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