The New York Times wrote a good article about how Wikileaks, a web site that allows users to anonymously post leaked documents has been shut down.

From the article:

[The site]… invites people to post leaked materials with the goal of discouraging “unethical behavior” by corporations and governments. It has posted documents said to show the rules of engagement for American troops in Iraq, a military manual for the operation of the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and other evidence of what it has called corporate waste and wrongdoing.

This brillliant legal mind didn’t consider that the magic of the Intrawebs, could somehow keep it going in Europe.

Great discussion on the legal blog at the Wall St. Journal (great site, btw, I referenced it in an earlier post) about the ethics involved. Free speech is a concept valued highly by free society. But should anonymous free speech be held as sacrosanct? Surely, if someone is giving the right to say whatever he or she wants, they should endure the responsibility of the consequences.