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Originally Posted by theking
...Wikileaks down cold before anything was leaked. When the interviewer asked why they didn't do this...it was stated that the power to do that would only be used for something of real import.
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Heck, imho, it's likely various U.S. government agencies
intentionally allowed the "leaks" to happen.
If they'd wanted to, they would have branded the Wikileaks operators as terrorists and sent them to Cuba and/or various secret prisons ...
And, furthermore, would have seized the domains (to date they have not; the .org domain is still active though it doesn't resolve) and would have ordered the various ISPs and gateways to block requests to Wikileak IP addresses (many ISPs already have such blocking / filtering abilities; used for blocking illicit underage content, etc).
As to why the U.S. government would allow such "leaks" to be widely published ... some possible reasons include diversionary tactics and to justify stricter government control of the internet - basically laying the groundwork for a U.S. firewall similar to that of what China has.
From a technical aspect, the internet is far more centralized than many realize - webhosting, domain names, traffic routing, gateways (ISPs), and network access points where traffic from numerous backbone networks converge...
Such as in the old Port Authority Building in NYC that Google recently bought for 1.8 billion; the building isn't worth that, but the access sure is, especially being that Google is reported to get black-budget money from the U.S. government.
Bottom line is that governments, in particular larger ones, such as the U.S. and China, have virtually unlimited resources ... if the U.S. wanted Wikileaks gone, it would have never seen the light of day - it wouldn't even be a new story.
Ron