Wikileaks

Here in the Netherlands, the website joop.nl started a petition to call the prime minister Mark Rutten (of the VVD party) to save wikileaks. More specifically:

• The site will be welcome in the Netherlands and protected against take-down actions
• The arrest warrant against Assange will be ignored by our police
• We will offer political asylum to Julian Assange

At the moment almost 5500 people signed the petition. The question is, will it end in time? According to the petition website, it wont be until the 3rd of March (2011). I just hope it isn't too late by then. Assange may be an asshole (at least, according to some sources), pushing wikileaks a little too much to the sensational corner, but the work of the website is important nonetheless.

The joop.nl article mentions one interesting point that will make this hard(er) to refuse on the part of our government: quoting the coalition agreement, "The government encourages a free and open Internet" (translation by google translate). I figure this is enough incentive, but you never know.