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 <gbon...@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. > > > -- Jeffrey Lyon, Leadership Team jeffrey.l...@blacklotus.net | http://www.blacklotus.net Black Lotus Communications - AS32421 First and Leading in DDoS Protection Solutions
