Wired’s Threat Level blog reports U.S. District Judge White has reversed his previous decision which saw Wikileaks domain erased from the interwebs.

A federal judge on Friday allowed whistle-blower site WikiLeaks to resume operation in the United States, a week after ordering its U.S. hosting company and domain registrar to shut down and lock the renegade’s site from the internet.

The judge conceded the futility of attempts to censor information, in this instance private banking records, after it has been posted to the internet.

“When this genie gets out of the bottle, it’s out for all purposes,” U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White said after a more than 3-hour-long hearing here. Earlier, White said he had “an obligation to get it right” and that “I took an oath to uphold the Constitution.”

White signed an order last week that effectively took down the WikiLeaks site in the United States and also locked “the WikiLeaks.org domain name to prevent transfer of the domain name to a different domain registrar.”

WikiLeaks, a whistle-blower site publishing thousands of leaked documents, was taken offline in the United States after posting allegedly stolen documents: individuals’ banking records that suggest a Cayman Islands branch of a Swiss bank was helping customers practice money laundering and tax evasion across the globe.

See also these reports from The New York Times and in TPM Muckraker.

While the illegality of the Judge’s original decision was never in doubt there were many left holding their breath to see how all of this would play out. We do, unfortunately, live in a time where legal decisions doesn’t automatically amount to true justice. This is a significant and symbolic victory for the rule of law in America and will, undoubtedly, prove to be a milestone on the path of ensuring fundamental freedoms within cyberspace. Watch as more legal cases use this as a foundation to ensure, enshrine and otherwise set vital precedents for the rule of law and civil rights within our digital dimension.

Enough prosaic huffing - I have to go clean the bathroom.

Cheers.