According to a Q&A with Assange: "Since 2007 we have been deliberately placing some of our servers in jurisdictions that we suspected suffered a free speech de

According to a Q&A with Assange: "Since 2007 we have been deliberately placing some of our servers in jurisdictions that we suspected suffered a free speech deficit inorder to separate rhetoric from reality. Amazon was one of these cases." http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2010/dec/03/julian-assange-wikileaks http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2010/dec/03/julian-assa... I think that the hosting with Amazon was more a PR move than anything.