Julian Assange said that his organisation deliberately placed its servers in certain jurisdictions, such as Amazon in the USA, to test their commitment to freedom of speech.
Freedom of speech means differnet for different people and countries. Some are accused as they crush all voices against their govt. and don't allow freedom of speech (mostly third world countries, muslim countries including Iran and CHINA). Well when someone hit accusers / freedom of speech champions, they did not like it and could not set good example...
Source:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/03/julian-assange-live-online-answers
Freedom of speech means differnet for different people and countries. Some are accused as they crush all voices against their govt. and don't allow freedom of speech (mostly third world countries, muslim countries including Iran and CHINA). Well when someone hit accusers / freedom of speech champions, they did not like it and could not set good example...
Source:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/03/julian-assange-live-online-answers