"Victory for WikiLeaks in Iceland's Parliament"

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> From: Gabe Goldberg <gabe () gabegold com>
> Date: June 17, 2010 11:51:02 AM EDT
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> 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
>
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