"We are investigating cause," Mikael Viborg, of the Internet service provider PRQ, told AP.

The nonprofit media company WikiLeaks is struggling to stay online after releasing a quarter million of US diplomatic cables that revealed backstage whisperings on the world's political stage.

U.S. officials have been embarrassed by the leaks widely blamed on jailed U.S. Army Specialist Bradley Manning.

Since last week, governments and U.S. corporations have colluded to knock WikiLeaks out of the secret-telling business. The organization's U.S. domain host EveryDNS.net kicked WikiLeaks.org off its network saying attacks on the site threatened its infrastructure.

The online retailer Amazon.com removed the website from its servers after being contacted by Senator Joe Lieberman's office. Then PayPal closed WikiLeaks account -- severing one of the transparency organization's main source of funding. And yesterday Twitterers were buzzing with allegations that the microblog was prohibiting WikiLeaks from becoming a "trending topic." France also shut down servers in efforts to censor WikiLeaks and cut it off from supporters necessitating its move to a Swedish server.

The collusionary actions have provoked outrage by the organization Reporters Without Borders. "This is the first time we have seen an attempt at the international community level to censor a website dedicated to the principle of transparency," a statement on the group's website reads. "We are shocked to find countries such as France and the United States suddenly bringing their policies on freedom of expression into line with those of China."

Organized attempts to shut down WikiLeaks has only enraged the group's supporters worldwide, triggering the creation of "mirror" sites of WikiLeaks that enable users to access released information. As of 1pm Central time, there were more than 500 "mirror sites" up and running through which Internet users could access WikiLeaks.

While statists have argued that WikiLeaks' release of documents threatened U.S. relationships around the globe, Australia's Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd criticized the U.S. for having a lax intelligence system.

" I think rule number one for our friends in the United States is `how do you tighten things up a bit?,”' Rudd reportedly said.

Today, Business Insider published a story headlined, "Who Made Amazon The Judge Of What's Legal On The Web?"

This is what war looks like in the information age.