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This is very interesting. If Wikileaks does in fact become designated a terrorist organization by the US, then it seems Amazon will have to shut them down or ru
by brianr 16y ago
This is very interesting. If Wikileaks does in fact become designated a terrorist organization by the US, then it seems Amazon will have to shut them down or run the risk of providing them "material aid".
The same would be true of any other cloud provider... are there any sizable cloud providers outside the US?
- ScottBurson 16y agoThe overheated rhetoric spewing from some politicians notwithstanding, I can hope that no court of law will be persuaded that there can be a terrorist organization without weapons, indeed without violence of any kind. (Even if Assange has committed some violent crime on his own -- and I am not saying he has -- this is clearly not the purpose of the organization.)
- yread 16y agoDoes the government still need to go through courts when dealing with "terrorists"?
- _delirium 16y agoThere is actually a bit of judicial review in the case of designating terrorist organizations, though I don't know how thorough. Here's Wikipedia on how terrorist organizations get designated, and how they can challenge it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._State_Department_list_of_Foreign_Terrorist_Organizations#Designation_process http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._State_Department_list_of_F...
- teoruiz 16y agoCloudsigma is based in Zurich, Switzerland and seems to be fairly big. They should be able to cope with this kind of attack: http://www.cloudsigma.com/ http://www.cloudsigma.com/
- jonhendry 16y agoIf Wikileaks is a terrorist, then so too is the New York Times, and any other media outlet that has conveyed the same information Wikileaks released.