Comments on: Amazon Unplugs WikiLeaks After Government Pressure

By: Mediactive » Another big Web company erodes user trust

Mediactive » Another big Web company erodes user trust — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 21:01:51 +0000

[...] understanding of the role of Internet service providers of all kinds. As Amazon.com’s recent takedown of the Wikileaks site it was hosting demonstrates, we are at the whims of the companies that provide the services, [...]

By: The Digital Trap

The Digital Trap — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 14:23:38 +0000

By: Amazon, WikiLeaks and the Need For an Open Cloud: Tech News «

Amazon, WikiLeaks and the Need For an Open Cloud: Tech News « — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 23:00:46 +0000

[...] key issues that have arisen out of the affair — particularly those raised by Amazon’s removal of WikiLeaks from its servers, out of concern about the legality of the content being hosted there. At least one senior [...]

By: Tyrannio

Tyrannio — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 17:54:00 +0000

Sorry. I couldn’t agree less. I used to be a big supporter of Wikileaks, but I’m afraid that I now find Mr. Assange to be a paranoid (rightfully so, possibly) primadonna (not so rightful), and his approach to have been entirely ham-fisted and amateurish.

Had Wikileaks taken the time to discover the cables that revealed government malfeasance instead of hastily just posting the whole batch, I would have been in their corner. But by posting everything, they are in the same corner as Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei. In seeking to cause embarassment, they have only inflicted damage to the work of good people trying to accomplish good things. Diplomatic cables require candor, but candor is best kept discreet. Other than supplying the equivalent of tabloid fodder, Wikileaks has done no good in this case.

And as for Amazon, they operate under the rule of law. And the rule of law says (or rather should say, if it doesn’t) that the indiscriminate revelation of classified information is against the law.

By: thorsten

thorsten — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 09:32:35 +0000

Lol and they try to be a serious cloud provider? This will kill the cloud faster than they can speak the Word Wikileaks.

By: Does the World Need a Data Haven for WikiLeaks Info?: Tech News «

Does the World Need a Data Haven for WikiLeaks Info?: Tech News « — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:45:43 +0000

[...] and various governments and corporations continues: in just the past few days, the site has been kicked off Amazon’s cloud-hosting platform and had its domain-name service cancelled by a second company — and even a data visualization [...]

By: Aikimaniac

Aikimaniac — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 12:49:11 +0000

Maybe the 21.12.2012 is kinda end of world in way that ppl will revolt after wikileaks will publish some realy ultimate lie governments are feeding us with :-) Go go wikileaks..

By: Majortom1981

Majortom1981 — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 12:47:24 +0000

Wikileaks does not care what they release. They do not care if it kills people. Example who cares what say hillary clinton thinks of other countries prime ministers the only thing tht does is put countries against each other. Yet wikileaks released it anyway.

Also amazon has to do business in the US . So it has to play by the rules of the US.

By: BBC Web Hosting

BBC Web Hosting — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 12:26:59 +0000

Why Amazon will support wikileaks. They taken right decision and done good work after removing related things.

By: nisa sanjaya

nisa sanjaya — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 11:14:54 +0000

i am dissapointed for this