The fallout from WikiLeaks’ late-November release of hundreds of thousands of private U.S. State Department messages continues to spread, and it’s grown well beyond the spewing of outraged rhetoric. Feeling pressure from the public and possibly the U.S. government itself, businesses are attempting to lay siege to WikiLeaks, cutting it off financially and technologically. Those who support what WikiLeaks has done have begun to fight back in their own way. Meanwhile, Julian Assange, the site’s founder, has been arrested on a Swedish sex crime allegation.
