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
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Blog: http://supercobrablogger.blogspot.com/
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 5:18 PM, nickmilon 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
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