3 ms·
Good point. The problem with this is that this is exactly the reason why the Government is using companies as proxies for suppressing freedom, because it leave
by gasull 16y ago
Good point. The problem with this is that this is exactly the reason why the Government is using companies as proxies for suppressing freedom, because it leaves nobody to blame: (1) the Government didn't really forbid donations to WikiLeaks and (2) the companies can always blame the Government or the law for what they were forced to do.
I don't have the right answer for this and it just makes me sad that our freedom is being eroded incrementally.
- xenophanes 16y agoIt's tricky b/c Amazon (for example) denies that they acted b/c the Govt wanted them to. Are they lying? I don't know. It's really hard to tell. They said Wikileaks violated their terms of service which is no doubt technically true; but I don't know if they would have been happy to overlook it without any Govt pressure. So even if I wanted to get mad at companies that do the Govt's bidding without being compelled, I don't really know if Amazon is such a company or not.
- gasull 16y ago[Amazon] said Wikileaks violated their terms of service which is no doubt technically true It's technically wrong since leaked documents, like the Pentagon Papers, are in the public domain, so WikiLeaks does have the right to publish them, contrary to what Amazon said.
- nerfhammer 16y agoThe Pentagon Papers were manually put into the public domain when Sen. Mike Gravel (yes, that one) entered them into the Congressional Record.