[governance] WikiLeaks website pulled by Amazon after US homeland

[Guru गुरु]

McTim wrote:
> Hello Guru,
>
> 2010/12/2 Guru गुरु <Guru at itforchange.net>:
>   
>> It seems that FOE is to be selectively applied / prescribed for the rest of
>> the world.
>>     
>
> I'm not sure this is a FOE issue.
>
> If I hacked IT4Change system and published all documents of yours
> whether sensitive or no, would that be my right to FOE?
>   
The point is, how does a western private entity (Amazon) censor 
information on basis of political pressures in the US, without _any due 
process of law being followed _- is this not violation of FOE?

Secondly, Govts have a larger accountability to the public - this is now 
popular in many countries as 'freedom of information' or 'right to 
information' where the public has a right to government information, 
with specified exceptions - so comparing USG to IT for Change is not 
useful.

> I was actually very surprised that Amazon took this into their Cloud
> in the first place.  I am not surprised that they caved to pressure
> however.
>   
what is the nature of this pressure and caving in, how does it fit with 
the 'foe' prescriptions to the rest of world.
> This is not to say that the documents are unavailable however.  Now
> that folk are torrenting them, they will be available online for a
> long, long time.
>   
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