04-12-2010, 05:07 PM
Wikileaks cut off by Amazon
WikiLeaks, the highly controversial which has roused a lot of the USA government due to them leaking classified information, no longer has a home on Amazon's servers.
WikiLeaks had previously been housed on Amazon's EC2, or Elastic Cloud Computing service but is now apparently being hosted by servers in Europe.
In response to its expulsion from Amazon, WikiLeaks tweeted two comments:
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Amazon may have dropped WikiLeaks following inquiries from Sen. Joseph Lieberman, who is chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Lieberman's staff contacted Amazon officials on Tuesday asking them to explain the company's relationship with WikiLeaks.
He then made this comment
WikiLeaks has repeatedly found itself in trouble with the U.S. government over its leaking of sensitive information. But the latest release of classified and in many cases embarrassing documents from the U.S. State Department has prompted calls among some politicians to brand the site a terrorist group, putting it in the same category as al-Qaeda.
WikiLeaks has faced other pressures as well. It was hit by hackers since last weekend. The cyberattacks, which included distributed denial of service attacks, were seen as an attempt to take down the site to keep people from reading the latest round of classified disclosures.
After just trying to visit the site, it appears to be down.
WikiLeaks, the highly controversial which has roused a lot of the USA government due to them leaking classified information, no longer has a home on Amazon's servers.
WikiLeaks had previously been housed on Amazon's EC2, or Elastic Cloud Computing service but is now apparently being hosted by servers in Europe.
In response to its expulsion from Amazon, WikiLeaks tweeted two comments:
Quote:"WikiLeaks servers at Amazon ousted. Free speech the land of the free--fine our $ are now spent to employ people in Europe."
and
Quote:"If Amazon are so uncomfortable with the first amendment, they should get out of the business of selling books."
Amazon may have dropped WikiLeaks following inquiries from Sen. Joseph Lieberman, who is chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Lieberman's staff contacted Amazon officials on Tuesday asking them to explain the company's relationship with WikiLeaks.
He then made this comment
Quote:"I wish that Amazon had taken this action earlier based on Wikileaks' previous publication of classified material. The company's decision to cut off Wikileaks now is the right decision and should set the standard for other companies Wikileaks is using to distribute its illegally seized material. I call on any other company or organization that is hosting WikiLeaks to immediately terminate its relationship with them."
WikiLeaks has repeatedly found itself in trouble with the U.S. government over its leaking of sensitive information. But the latest release of classified and in many cases embarrassing documents from the U.S. State Department has prompted calls among some politicians to brand the site a terrorist group, putting it in the same category as al-Qaeda.
WikiLeaks has faced other pressures as well. It was hit by hackers since last weekend. The cyberattacks, which included distributed denial of service attacks, were seen as an attempt to take down the site to keep people from reading the latest round of classified disclosures.
After just trying to visit the site, it appears to be down.
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