Amazon has denied that government pressure played any role in its decision on Tuesday to stop hosting Wikileaks' content.
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Amazon pulls the plug on Wikileaks servers
Amazon has terminated its cloud services relationship with the whistleblower site after pressure from a US government committee, according to a US senator
In a blog post, the online retailer said it terminated its hosting relationship with the controversial site because it became clear that Wikileaks was violating Amazon's terms of service. That violation occurred, Amazon said, because Wikileaks did not control all of the rights related to the classified government cables it posted this week. The post also said it doubted the documents had been carefully redacted as promised and innocent lives could be put at risk as a result.
"We've been running AWS [Amazon Web Services] for over four years and have hundreds of thousands of customers storing all kinds of data on AWS. Some of this data is controversial, and that's perfectly fine. But, when companies or people go about securing and storing large quantities of data that isn't rightfully theirs, and publishing this data without ensuring it won't injure others, it's a violation of our terms of service, and folks need to go operate elsewhere," the company said in the post.
For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Amazon: U.S. played no role in WikiLeaks disconnect on CNET News.
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Oh look, airborne porcine.
tl;dr
"We put wikileaks down, but not because the govt ordered us to put wikileaks down"
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