Freedom of speech is always a worthwhile subject and its defense is the ethical and moral obligation of every freedom loving individual but perhaps this is best discussed in a dedicated blog on the subject.
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 9:11 AM, nickmilon <nickmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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<google-appengine%2bunsubscr...@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<google-appengine%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- *Jeff Schwartz* -- 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.
