{"id":32215,"date":"2012-11-03T11:45:32","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T18:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=32215"},"modified":"2012-11-03T11:45:32","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T18:45:32","slug":"firedoglake-us-national-archives-has-blocked-searches-for-wikileaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/11\/03\/firedoglake-us-national-archives-has-blocked-searches-for-wikileaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Firedoglake: US National Archives Has Blocked Searches for \u2018WikiLeaks\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Searches for \u201cWikiLeaks\u201d in the public search engine for the US National Archives have been blocked, according to a posting at Cryptome.org. Any search containing the word \u201cWikiLeaks (like \u201cCongress\u201d and \u201cWikiLeaks\u201d) turns up an error message.<\/p>\n<p>WikiLeaks reacted on Twitter, \u201cThe US National Archives has literally turned into Orwell\u2019s Ministry of Truth.\u201d In another more vivid message, \u201cThe US state is literally eating its own brain by censoring its own collective memories about WikiLeaks.\u201d And, in another message, \u201cThe US National Archives censoring searches for its records containing the word \u2018WikiLeaks\u2019 is absolutely absurd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is unknown when the Archives began blocking searches, but the United States government did adopt a generally accepted and understood policy of censorship back in December 2010 when the US State Embassy cables were being released.<\/p>\n<p>Read the story <a href=\"http:\/\/dissenter.firedoglake.com\/2012\/11\/03\/us-national-archives-has-blocked-searches-for-wikileaks\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" title=\"wikileaks\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read Library of Congress&#8217; statement <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.loc.gov\/loc\/2010\/12\/why-the-library-of-congress-is-blocking-wikileaks\/\" title=\"wikileaks\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Searches for \u201cWikiLeaks\u201d in the public search engine for the US National Archives have been blocked, according to a posting at Cryptome.org. Any search containing the word \u201cWikiLeaks (like \u201cCongress\u201d and \u201cWikiLeaks\u201d) turns up an error message. WikiLeaks reacted on Twitter, \u201cThe US National Archives has literally turned into Orwell\u2019s Ministry of Truth.\u201d In another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32216,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32215\/revisions\/32216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}