Re: [Sheflug] Wikileaks

[Bob Mottram <fuzzgun@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11 January 2011 16:10, Perry Ismangil <perry@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> However as we found out with the WikiLeaks/Assange case, even one
> nation's legislation (UK, US or Sweden) is enough to sufficiently
> cripple things like cloud stuff (Amazon), financial (payment


As I understand it, and IANAL, none of those takedowns were the result
of national laws being broken, but were merely based upon suspicion of
terms of service violations.  I think in the Amazon case they thought
that Wikileaks were hosting material which might put people "in harms
way", which violated their terms of service.  That's really a
political decision, because there are many kinds of activities which
can put people in harms way.


> processors and accounts). Even more so when we say the 'Internet' most
> stuff can't be done without touching the US soil in one way or
> another....


That's only because many popular web based services are based in the
US (Twitter, Facebook, etc).  Fundamentally the technology of the
internet is still quite decentralised, with the main bottleneck being
ISPs.

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