WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (AFP) - WikiLeaks lashed out at Amazon on Friday for kicking the whistleblower website off its servers, accusing the US company of lying and being “cowardly.”The accusations came after Amazon broke days of silence and provided its first explanation for its decision to no longer provide Web-hosting services to WikiLeaks.org.
Amazon Web Services, in a statement on its website, said it cut off WikiLeaks because it had violated the company's terms of service and not because of any government pressure.
WikiLeaks fired back at Amazon with a message on its Twitter feed. “Amazon's press release does not accord with the facts on public record. It is one thing to be cowardly. Another to lie about it,” WikiLeaks said. Amazon is best known as an online retailer but it is also a major provider of Web-hosting services, renting out space on its computer servers to customers around the world.
In its statement, the Seattle-based Amazon said “there have been reports that a government inquiry prompted us not to serve WikiLeaks any longer. That is inaccurate.””There have also been reports that it was prompted by massive DDoS attacks,” the company said in a reference to distributed denial of service attacks on the WikiLeaks website. |
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