----- Forwarded message from Dave Farber <[email protected]> ----- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:53:13 -0400 From: Dave Farber <[email protected]> Subject: [IP] "Victory for WikiLeaks in Iceland's Parliament" Reply-To: [email protected] To: ip <[email protected]>
Reply to. [email protected] Begin forwarded message: > From: Gabe Goldberg <[email protected]> > Date: June 17, 2010 11:51:02 AM EDT > To: Dave Farber <[email protected]> > 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 -----
