Re: wikileaks dns (was Re: Blocking International DNS)

[Jeffrey Lyon <jeffrey.lyon () blacklotus net>]

For the record, I would never remove a customer because a congressman
or senator asked for it, however, I would deny service to persons with
outstanding felony warrant(s).

Jeff

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 12:38 PM, George Bonser <gbonser () seven com> wrote:
> > I guess the USG's cyberwar program does work (very dryly said).
>
> It was reported in the last couple of days that Wikileaks could have been taken off the net but the govt decided not 
> to do it.
>
> As for a member of Congress pressuring Amazon, what else would one expect?  If a site has content that the USG might 
> see as "damaging", and if a US company is facilitating the distribution of that content, sure, I would expect members 
> of that government to apply "pressure" but I have no idea what that "pressure" might have consisted of.
>
> But think about it ... if someone had, for example, deep internal corporate confidential financial information on a 
> company and published that on the web, that company might also attempt to "pressure" the publishing entity to stop it.
>
> To expect someone not to "pressure" someone to remove potentially damaging material is probably naïve.



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