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Earlier this month, Seattle based Tableau Software removed data visualizations that were published by WikiLeaks to Tableau Public, a free visualization tool that allows users to create an interactive visualization and embed or share it.  “Our terms of service require that people using Tableau Public do not upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content that they do not have the right to make available. Furthermore, if we receive a complaint about a particular set of data, we retain the right to investigate the situation and remove any offending data, if necessary,” Elissa Fink, VP of Marketing wrote on the company's blog. The post attracted almost 500 responses, most of them denouncing the company's decision, and questioning the logic offered, with some going as far as pointing out the absence of charges, arrests, trials, verdicts and court orders. “Our decision to remove the data from our servers came in response to a public request by Senator Joe Lieberman, who chairs the Senate Homeland Security Committee, when he called for organizations hosting WikiLeaks to terminate their relationship with the website,” Fink had said in the post. Almost simultaneously, Amazon also stopped hosting Wikileaks. The site is now online at http://www.wikileaks.nl/ and several hundreds of other mirror sites that have sprung up to help keep Wikileaks alive. Meanwhile, online groups have retaliated against MasterCard, Visa and Pay Pal for refusing to process donations for Wikileaks. The BBC reported about a voluntary botnet application that launches denial-of-service attacks against the websites of the three financial companies. The application has been downloaded 31,000 times by Wikileaks fans. |
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