Whistle-blower Web site ordered shut down

A San Francisco federal judge has taken the highly unusual step of ordering the shutdown of a Web site devoted to anonymous allegations of high-level wrongdoing after it posted documents purporting to describe offshore activities of a Swiss bank.

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White issued an injunction Friday ordering a Bay Area Internet host to disable the Wikileaks.org site and prevent the organization from transferring to any other server until further notice.

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Advocates for news media and for government whistle-blowers criticized the ruling. Peter Scheer, executive director of the media-backed California First Amendment Coalition, said White's order was like "enjoining all future editions of the Washington Post because of a corporation's complaint about one article."