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http://www.coinbuzz.com/2014/05/27/mt-gox-willy-bot-report-suspended-from-wordpress/

Was WordPress.com's decision justified? Is there something they are trying to hide?

A twist in the plot
To further confound us all, the WordPress account that hosted the Willy Report has been “archived or suspended” due to violations of Wordpress terms of service.

^^^The article doesn't say/speculate which "Terms of Service" were violated.
I wonder if the author will post it somewhere else soon?

Well seeing as they haven't actually specified why the Willy report was taken down you can't really say it was or wasn't justified. If there is nothing else at play - ie no real breakage of the Wordpress TOS then I would be suspecting some kind of foul play, but realistically I'm not convinced of an affiliation between Gox and Wordpress. Much more likely something went wrong and they took it down.

I'm with you on this. My first question is why Wordpress would care about what was said about Gox. They wouldn't.

There must have been a deeper reason (unrelated to all of this) as to why it was done. Who ran Willy Report? Someone should ask them for more information.

it's very odd that it would get taken down for a terms of service violation. has anyone speculated as to what the breach may have been? i racked my brain a bit, and i'm really coming up empty. it's true...why would they possibly care? or... dun dun dun -- who would have pressured them?

The fact that they suspended the account is just dumb, i hope it gets posted somewhere else, blogspot. Maybe somebody from gox had something to do with this.

Thinking about this more, didn't they link to or hint as to how to get the leaked Gox documents? If so, this could be seen as a liability for WP (being that they could be sued) and that may be what sparked it. Just speculation, obviously.

Should we blame Brock Pierce and Sunlot Holdings secretly working with Mark?
...or...
Do you hear the Bitcoin Foundation had the article removed?   .......lol?

The cache is still available, so I suggest somebody(s) capture as much as possible and self-host the content using a Wordpress theme.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:gwUebRBBbrMJ:willyreport.wordpress.com/2014/05/25/the-willy-report-proof-of-massive-fraudulent-trading-activity-at-mt-gox-and-how-it-has-affected-the-price-of-bitcoin/+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Please post here if you're up to the task.

~Bruno Kucinskas

PS: BTW, I just discovered who Satoshi Nakamoto is if you're interested and want to weigh-in on the poll. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=628344.0

It's been taken down, but don't worry I've already seen the article get rehosted several times. I'll search for those links, other than the cached from google.

The wordpress TOS is a swamp. Very easy to violate as it's just a bunch of generic rubbish and lots of "rubber rules".

Something I thought odd when the article was published (and I am not saying that this is the reason), David Gilson (the author of the article) is quite a prolific blogger, you can find his blog here;-

http://davidgilson.co.uk/blog/

Yet if you do a search of his blog (http://davidgilson.co.uk/?s=willy) nothing.  I have been a bit ill of late or I would have done a bit further digging.

Neil

I think I downloaded it as pdf on one of my computers if anyone wants. Or if allot of people still want to read it, someone should just copy and paste the whole thing to this thread..,

I guess, he published it on WordPress because he knew it would be taken down eventually and didn't want, that this influences his blog.

Could also be that I am referring to the wrong person (and I am)... like I said, I have been ill and not firing on all cylinders ;) .

Neil

Here you go, I found a link that rehosted the article. Copy this one before it gets taken down as well:

http://bitleaks.net/willyreport.html

torrent here:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:138FE3C38D92F7208081D11C7DD4F9DB43B5FBAA&dn=Bitleaks&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3a80%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.publicbt.com%3a80%2fannounce

If they got a cease and desist from somebody's lawyer they might've just complied with it without looking into whether it actually violated any terms or not. I would like to know what it apparently violated though.

Dude, that report shows MtGox database info which was Hacked from MtGox. It's illegal my friend to have that information and they could of gotten sued. That's why it was taken down...

Given the ongoing civil litigation (and possibly criminal, though nobody will confirm that), there was probably a gag order requested by either side.  Most likely, the party requesting it sent a copy signed by a magistrate with jurisdiction (federal) to wordpress.  Wordpress is reasonable in taking it down if this was the case.  It's not their fight.  Let the attorneys scramble all over the web trying to suppress the other sources as well.  Makes for an interesting (futile) adventure.

Yeah, this is what I was thinking as well. Just sharing input and such wouldn't get a ToS violation. Sharing leaked documents (financial especially) would.

The question is who had Wordpress' ear when the request was made for the take-down, for surely they didn't stumble upon the URL themselves via some "Willie" search, albeit an argument could be made.

Willie has been set free and will remain in the wild forever.


Sunlot Holdings has the all seeing power on their side. They will make a great new owner for Gox.  ::)

what is everyone bitching about. do you lil mouthy bitches not even research the news provided to you on a spoon..

RESEARCH the news bitches.

firstly go to http://willyreport.wordpress.com/
or
http://willyreport.wordpress.com/2014/05/25/the-willy-report-proof-of-massive-fraudulent-trading-activity-at-mt-gox-and-how-it-has-affected-the-price-of-bitcoin/

and guess what. all the documentation is still there. you can still read the whole thing from top to bottom

so dont bitch about something you dont know.

its like watching old people bitch for hours that they lost their glasses without even looking or feeling to see if they were on the top of their head,or in their jacket pocket

now have a nice day

Why bother?  Everyone is so quick to correct us?

   
Wordpress can delete user's blog? I think it's abusing.

They *have* to delete blogs in certain cases, as it's a liability issue. If they get a C&D order they can be sued if they don't follow it.

I have a copy if anyone wants it.

-bm

But... but... but.. It was down! We all saw it... I mean didn't see. Which begs the question: Are we truly seeing it now?

ZeroHedge.com has a thread on the Willy Report with full details and a link to the (then missing) Wordpress page.

There is an interesting comment from Ian Green tracing the movements of 1.200,000 BTC

quote

“If you take a look at THIS bitcoin wallet:-

https://blockchain.info/address/12Nxd2X12WZeYSjUcbtm5NpS3d81Yh8sKh

You will see about 120 payments (the red arrows) of 0.000777 bitcoins into other wallets.
Click on one
It
takes you into a wallet which had 10,000 bitcoins deposited in it
(usually on 6 Feb, the day before MTGOX disabled withdrawals, then
0.000777 BTC the next day (probably from a bitcoin wallet on an android
phone).

unquote

It was down. I checked it my self.
So, don't bitch about something you don't know.

This^^ He's right.

So it was there, then it was not there, now it is there.

Did anyone run a dif to see if anything changed?

*insert conspiracy theory here*

insert mirror of PDF version of this report ...  ::)


bloody hell, free blog to hosting this ?
Are you really stupid ?
only really free media can deal with limited theory to accuse a enterprise...

commercial blog or hosting service can't do this ...
that's why free FTP exist
that's why P2P file sharing exist
that's why ToR system exist




HOST THIS in wikileaks !

Yeah, I don't get why people automatically jump to conclusions about how x runs y or whatever based on no information, rather than the more logical explanations (that have been around for longer than Bitcoin, called the law).

I also mirrored it.

http://bitcoinhistory.net/MtGox/willyreport.html

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/182070/The%20Willy%20Report_%20proof%20of%20massive%20fraudulent%20trading%20activity%20at%20Mt.pdf

They're definietely trying to cover some bad things.

Another case of Newbies joining the board to bump threads in the Discussion section to further bury anything of relevance.

Dude, it's on the internet, therefore it must be fact!  ???

The fact that it was censored lends more credibility to the theory and conclusions. Clearly there are people who are keen to keep the mtgox story completely private, and while it may benefit this bull rally in the short term, it will do irreparable damage to bitcoin in the long run.