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Here is the question asked in the parlimentary records: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/cgi-bin/newhtml_hl?DB=...

And here is the report in question on wikileaks: http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Minton_report:_Trafigura_Toxic_dum...

What's interesting is some Guardian staffers are tweeting links to the wikileaks on their personal accounts. Are they covered by the gag order on The Guardian itself?

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The #trafigura hashtag on Twitter is going a bit crazy.

http://twitter.com/search?q=%23trafigura

On the one hand, it's good that news that needs to get out gets out. On the other, I can't help thinking how easy it is to rustle up a lynch mob these days.

Turning a few hours of online outrage into something actionable that fixes the problem is hard. Like with the Iran elections.

Still, it's good to see how modern technology has allowed ordinary people a) to access to such censored documents, and b) to gain access to those who are willing to do the research to obtain a, and advertise such. Without it I'd just be reading the Guardian, getting fairly outraged. In fact, I probably wouldn't have heard about it, as I wouldn't have flicked through the Guardian had it not been online (I don't like it so much to spend one pound on a paper when I'm generally only interested in a couple of articles, on average).

It's a step in the right direction. Not the whole solution, just yet.

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