Lieberman, Amazon shutdown Wikileaks

Ok, so Joseph Lieberman or his staff got in touch with Amazon’s internet hosting service in regards to their newest customer, The Wikileaks website, of whom it’s creator Julian Assange is under fire for the release of Classified documents. Assange had swapped to Amazon’s hosting service following a weekend filled with his site being cyber-attacked over and over. Now regardless of how you feel about these documents being “Leaked” , the big picture is this…….Is it right that a member of the Government can call up a company that is paid for their services and by whatever means get that said company to remove a customer’s website? This isn’t the first time Lieberman has done this type of thing. In 2008, Lieberman wrote to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, demanding immediate removal of “content produced by Islamist terrorist organizations from YouTube.” While YouTube did remove a few videos that violated community guidelines against violence and hate speech, it refused to remove most of them.

Where will it end? Is this just a one time thing or will these occurences grow in number? With all the talks of Government intervention in things that are happening on the interwebs, one must seriously ponder these questions. Especially if you are an alternate news source or a site that posts things of a somewhat touchy or taboo nature. If someone comes to you with substantial proof of something going on within the government that should not be happening, would you hesitate to post it? I’m sure the majority would answer NO, or I would at least hope that would be the answer. I for one would not even  think twice, if the information has a firm foundation in fact.

Well I suppose I should share some information on Mr. Assange for those that don’t know much of him.

Full name: Julian Paul Assange
Born: 1971, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
Occupations:
Currently: Editor in chief and spokesperson for Wikileaks, Hacker
Previously: Journalist, programmer, internet activist
Website: www.wiki leaks.org
Awards: Amnesty International UK Media Awards 2009, Sam Adams Award 2010

Julian Paul Assange ( born 1971) is an Australian internet activist and journalist best known for his involvement with Wikileaks, a whistleblower website. Assange was a physics and mathematics student, a hacker and a computer programmer, before taking on his current role as spokesperson and editor in chief for Wikileaks.

After the hacking trial, Assange lived in Melbourne as a programmer and a developer of free software. In 1995, Assange wrote Strobe, the first free and open source port scanner.^[13][14] Strobe inspired Fyodor to develop the Nmap port scanner.

Assange has said that it is “pretty much true” that he is constantly on the move, and that he is “living in airports these days”. Assange has lived for periods in Australia, Kenya and Tanzania, and has visited many other places including Vietnam, Sweden, Iceland, Siberia, Iraq, Belgium and the United States.

Assange was the winner of the 2009 Amnesty International Media Award (New Media),^[31] awarded for exposing extrajudicial assassinations in Kenya with the investigation The Cry of Blood – Extra Judicial Killings and Disappearances.

Wikileaks is an international organization based in Sweden that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of otherwise unavailable documents while preserving the anonymity of sources.

In April 2010, a video posted on a website called Collateral Murder established Wikileaks as a prime portal for unauthorized, accurate accounts, documents and video from distant battlefields. In July of the same year, Wikileaks released Afghan War Diary, a compilation of more than 90,000 documents about the War in Afghanistan not previously available for public review.

http://www.publicfigurebiography.com/julian-assange/biography/20100802/

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