Philip +1 Still I am not sure that G would surrender so easily as Amazon did, there is a precedence: G vs Lieberman story: http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2008/05/dialogue-with-sen-lieberman-on.html when G stood to its values.
By the way ... http://wikileaks.org/support.html doesn't work for me http://213.251.145.96/support.html is working (for the time been) On Dec 4, 3:15 pm, Philip <philip.mates...@driggle.com> wrote: > It's sad that Amazon does not support customers that exercise the > right of free speech. But I'd also assume that Google would not stand > up against the us government for offending the first amendment. :-( > > However, I will still donate to Wikileaks and I would suggest anyone > else to do the same:http://wikileaks.org/support.html > > "Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be > limited without being lost." > Thomas Jefferson > > "If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be > led, like sheep to the slaughter." > George Washington > > On Dec 4, 1:34 am, supercobra <superco...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Amazon and Google have been long-time partisans of freedom of speech. > > > However in this case, the pressure coming from the government must be > > incredible. Amazon is not the only victim of these intimidations. US > > government employees have been forbidden to visit Wikileaks sites and > > to discuss these matters on Facebook. At least one US university has > > been 'persuaded' to ask their students not to reference any Wikileaks > > documents in their research papers... (how is that for doing thorough > > research!). > > > Even crounties bend under US pressure. We have seen it to be the case > > with Spain & Germany which dropped their lawsuits, investigations and > > enforcement of arrest warrants for torture and kidnappings > > (renditions) after the US pressured them (source Wikileaks cables). > > > So I would assume that Google or any organization would probably comply as > > well. > > > To ensure free speech can not be prevented by taking down web sites, > > we need to create a totally distributed website hosting technology > > based on BitTorrent or something similar. > > > Happy coding. ;-) > > > Daniel Guermeur > > > -- superco...@gmail.com > > > Co-author of App Engine Java and GWT Development:http://bit.ly/hdTHyB > > Blog:http://supercobrablogger.blogspot.com/ > > > On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 5:18 PM, nickmilon <nickmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > There is a lot of talk and flame wars going on "AWS vs GAE" topic, up > > > to now all this talk was concentrated on technical and economic > > > issues. > > > News of Amazon throwing away the WikiLeaks website has raised new > > > arguments on the cloud battlefront. > > > So I want to raise here the hypothetical question what would be the > > > fate of WikiLeaks if it was hosted on App Engine ? > > > (For obvious reasons I do not expect a definite yes/no answer from > > > Google's team, but may be I am wrong) > > > > Happy coding:-) > > > > Nick > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > > "Google App Engine" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > > For more options, visit this group > > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
