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I gotta give Amazon props for extending their products along the lines that their customers clearly want. The only problem is, given the wikileaks affair, I don't trust them.

Maybe this is silly. It is certainly not like they're likely to pull down any of my stuff. And I do have some largish files hosted there for convenience, but I'm wary about becoming dependent on them in any way.

(Wikileaks was hosting their webpage on amazon, not the leaked cables themselves. Amazon pulled their account without having gotten a court order or giving them any warning, and they weren't hosting anything illegal there anyway.)




I am not an Amazon supporter but come on, do you think if you were hosted on any other US service, rackspace or what have you, that they would keep hosting you while the us govt was pressuring them to shut you down?


For static websites? I'd expect http://nearlyfreespeech.net/ not to do so.


Thats the thing about integrity. You never know if someone has it until it is tested.

This same question could be asked about any hosting company that hasn't been presented with such a request.

I'd be interested in hearing about hosting companies that have, and that stood up to them.

The US is supposed to be a country of rule of law. They should need to get a court order.


Dreamhost has a reputation for being pro-free-speech, and there are some anecdotes online that support this. Their TOS are also on the more friendly side, from what I've seen. I've also been quite pleased with their hosting in every other respect.

(disclaimer: founder is an old college friend)


hosting companies probably don't see value in standing up to the govt -- lawyers are expensive!

how much would you pay for this feature?


I'm so sorry that companies do not exist to promote your moral agenda.


Aren't you the same guy that was "ecstatic" that Apple was taking a 30% cut of subscription revenue? Here you're worried about Amazon's easily-replaced static file hosting service, while having no problems becoming 100% dependent for key parts of your business on Apple. You criticize Amazon for censoring Wikileaks while Apple did the same (wikileaks app was pulled).

Sorry, I just had to point it out. :)




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