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Wikileaks Booted From Amazon
dakameleon writes "Wikileaks has been booted from its Amazon hosting, and has now shifted to being hosted in Europe. Senator Lieberman, chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said in a statement, 'This morning Amazon informed my staff that it has ceased to host the WikiLeaks website,' which raises the question whether this was requested by the government. Senator Lieberman said Amazon's decision to cut off WikiLeaks 'is the right decision and should set the standard for other companies WikiLeaks is using to distribute its illegally seized material.'"
Not when they are handling something like this. If they were hosting the site for years and now they wanted to ditch them, that is something I understand. But when they accept, and only to boot them off in less then 48 hours(dunno the exact time), well that is hypocritical.
Personally I agree with Amazon and will be voting with my wallet - new kindle for me! The traitors should be tried for treason, and if guilty hung and shot.
Nonsense. A business ought to understand the risk before accepting the deal. If they underestimated the risks, they are punished with loss of revenue; if they correctly evaluated the risks and priced the service accordingly, they stand for a profit. A business' duty is to honor the contracts they sign. Of course, this is in the ideal world, where parties signing a contract have a fair balance of power; in the real world, amazon dictates the rules, and is in a position to craft some really vague ones at that.
The way I see it, amazon isn't simply breaking the contract over the direct cost of the demanded service like GGP supposes, mostly because the added cost caused by the "unexpected" traffic of cablegate is only marginal to amazon. Also, it is my understanding that amazon charges for bandwidth spent almost linearly, so all this "unexpected" traffic is being charged to Assange anyway. I believe they think there's a indirect cost in upsetting a potentially large client such as the US govt. In other words, they weighed the loss of reputation and money for booting wikileaks against the future loss of opportunities with USG and decided for booting wikileaks.