Amazon Kicks WikiLeaks to the Curb

Here's some non-Assange, non-leak WikiLeaks news: the embattled website lost one of its major servers today when Amazon decided (after pressure form Sen. Joe Lieberman) to stop hosting the site. Earlier this afternoon WikiLeaks tweeted "WikiLeaks servers at Amazon ousted. Free speech the land of the free--fine our $ are now spent to employ people in Europe." Though the site, which says it has been fighting off hackers, appeared to go down briefly after losing its Amazon servers it is back up now. And just to rub it in, the site pointed out "If Amazon are so uncomfortable with the first amendment, they should get out of the business of selling books."

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By Garth Johnston in News on December 1, 2010 5:10 PM

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Roger

You have no idea how wikileaks works, douchetard. They don't hunt for information, they only leak what's GIVEN to them. Want leaked documents from Russia or China? Tell someone over there to leak something. Let me guess, Palin 2012 right? You don't deserve to live.

JPeditor

""If Amazon are so uncomfortable with the first amendment, they should get out of the business of selling STOLEN SECRETS."

/fixed it. That little pervert won't leak docs from China and Russia, cause he (a) SUPPORTS THEM OVER AMERICA AND AUSTRALIA and (b) he knows they would feed him his little raping testicles if he did.

JenChungsBaby

They're probably just protecting their servers.

Mordicai

There have been statements made that it was due to political pressure. So for those of you keeping score: guide to pedophilia = freedom of speech! Inconvenient political truths = pull the plug.