Yey!

I think the correct behaviour is to treat people as you'd wish to be treated yourself - even if you think they are criminals.

Actions like this are just fuel to fire up people and make more martyrs.

The evidence for this, say in WW2, is that when civilian populations are badly treated, they don't lie down and keep quiet.

When London was bombed in the blitz, the people didn't shut up - they fought harder and for longer. The culmination of this bombing of civilians was not that Britain was defeated, but that Germany and Japan which suffered the same treatment, but worse, took even longer to beat as the people found new hope from their adversity.

When the Jews were carted off bit-by-bit to be killed, this was done with hardly a whimper. As soon as they were ghettoised and there was an assault on the ghetto, they rose up and fought like terriers.

Thus, treat people evenly, and they can be pushed around like sheep - harshly, and they'll revolt.

I think the key point is that a foreign company in a foreign (neutral) country, has made and succeeded with indecent haste, to get a banning order on a simple (possible) theft case that may be libellous or untruthful, or may incriminate a Swiss person in a Swiss legal case, from a senior judge across international boundaries.

I don't know, but do the US and Switzerland have extradition and other similar treaties in place?

Look at the incident the other way:
If a US person steals something from a US bank and puts it in Switzerland, is a little US bank capable of getting a Swiss government judge to get them to hand it back?

Anyway, like others I've quickly set up a sub domain (I don't know why I didn't think of it earlier!) at wikileaks redirect, and it works!