Amazon pulls service from WikiLeaks after intense pressure from Senator Joe Lieberman. "The whistle-blowing site was effectively taken offline when Amazon withdrew its hosting services and DNS provider, Every DNS, pulled the plug on its services." "...the ability of virtually anyone to speak freely online can be constrained by the corporate decision making of internet intermediaries."
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Human rights sites "under constant DDoS attack"
The “cyber war” involving WikiLeaks was only the tip of the iceberg in a wave of political hacking attacks targeting sites with differing opinions, according to a report from Harvard University.
"Amazon’s decision to remove WikilLeaks from its servers – under intense pressure from Senator Joe Lieberman – complicated one of the major suggestions we offer in the report,” said Zuckerman.
“Amazon’s disturbing decision to stop providing services to WikiLeaks suggests that our advice might need to be rethought - the ability of virtually anyone to speak freely online can be constrained by the corporate decision making of internet intermediaries."
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Thursday, December 23, 2010
When Freedom of Speech Lands on Deaf Ears
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