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WikiLeaks: How GoDaddy and other Webhosting Firms Would Handle the Controversy

With international pressure mounting on WikiLeaks, Amazon's decision to kick the site off its server triggered debate among other Web-hosting companies over how to handle the political hot potato. Brian Ries talks to the deciders.

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Julian Assange. Credit: Lennart Preiss / AP Photo

The public-relations department at Amazon.com received an unusual phone call Tuesday night from staffers for a U.S. senator. "Are there plans to take the site down?" the staff

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