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Dear Jeff Bezos and Amazon: Take note of how it's done by real men. By your actions WRT Orwell and Wikileaks, you've shown that you aren't worthy to shine the shoes of a real information-bearer, and you aren't fit to host my cloud nodes either. Sincerely, Marsh Ray

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A service provider terminating Wikileaks for AUP violations after they began publishing classified diplomatic cables; one of the oldest educational institutions on Earth standing up for a student's MPhil thesis.

Totally the same thing. How did I miss this?

It seems that the point is that Wikileaks apparently broke no laws.

You don't have to break a law to violate an AUP.

You have to live up to more than your own AUP to be worthy of respect in my book. I'd go so far as to say anyone who does only the minimum required by policies they themselves wrote and defers the rest to extra-constitutional influence from the likes of Sen. Lieberman is pretty darn low.

So sure, do whatever you can get away with under your AUP, just don't expect me to respect you for it (or trust you with my data).

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