Wikileaks Irony: "Authoritarian Governments" Condemned as Site Killed

UPDATE 1120 GMT: The WikiLeaks documents are now available at http://213.251.145.96/cablegate.html. 

In Pakistan, the High Court has rejected a petition seeking a ban on the WikiLeaks website.

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The Washington Post reports this morning:

Revelations by the organization WikiLeaks have received blanket coverage this week on television, in newspapers and on Web sites around the globe....Authoritarian governments and tightly controlled media in China and across the Arab Middle East have suppressed virtually all mention of the documents, avoiding the public backlash that could result from such candid portrayals of their leaders' views.

Earlier this week Amazon, possibly under pressure from others, suspended hosting of WikiLeaks. This morning, after sustained Denial of Service attacks affecting not only WikiLeaks but its other clients, the investigative site's service provider withdrew support for wikileaks.org.