What would we have done with a U.S. company aiding Germany in WW2?
The company could (rightly) be subject to government seizure. This would give Obama another toy.
The news program showed a woman, a mom of two soldiers in Afghanistan, and she said it was like Amazon was stabbing her sons/soldiers in the back.
WikiLeaks is co-hosted (mirrored) on multiple servers across multiple nations and continents. Shutting down one does nothing
Plus hosting fees are minimal or gratis from Julian Assange’s fellow anarchists. Hosting fees and hosting resources used are low for spitting out text which is what WikiLeaks does. Text is nothing compared to photos and movies.
I don’t mind if Assange is offed along with his other top wiki-leak people but the real blame lies with us for allowing millions of Americans to access this information. There was no “need to know” exclusion applied. This mega-leak was bound to happen sooner or later
Does Amazon own that server or does it belong to Level 3?
Wikileaks was under a denial of service attack, so had to move their hosting. So far, I haven’t heard any speculation about who might be responsible for the attack. I think the Level 3 servier may be some kind of backup that Amazon uses, but I don’t think it’s their primary.
http://www.cqcounter.com/traceroute/?query=72.21.222.161
According to a legal expert on CNN, you can’t charge Assange with the Espionage Act because there are currently too many holes in it. The law was put in place in 1917 and the Supreme Court made it into swiss cheese with all their rulings expanding the first amendment throughout the 20th century. Plus the law is out of date. Computers didnt exist back then.
Now the person who leaked the information to Assange could possibly face prosecution (believed to be Bradley Manning). But there could be problems there as well.
Technically there is no law on the books that says if a pile of confidential documents lands in your lap, that you can’t create a website and publish those things. 1) you were never put in charge of protecting that data. And 2) you did not physically extract the data.
I don’t.
Amazon is an international company, expatriates buy lots of books from them. I’m one I do.
The leaks prove what people have known for a long time; that our leaders are doing a lousy job, they squander money, resources and time. They play games. It wouldn’t surprise me that the leaks came from a pfc, I was a pfc and you do all the sh*t work with all the responsibility all the time for nothing, why not drop a dime, things might improve.
Actually, I like amazon, the company. But this is appalling.
It means we can get the wikileaks without having to pay state income taxes!!!!
I spent a while looking at my amazon account so I could write to them about this. Could find nada...can someone give me an email addy so I can write them?