Amazon Bows To US Censorship Pressure: Refuses To Host Wikileaks

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This is completely and utterly preposterous.<p>If you are a citizen of Connecticut, or, hell, <i>anywhere</i>, please email Lieberman and tell him that his actions and comments are completely ludicrous and, in fact, anti-Democratic.<p><a href="http://lieberman.senate.gov/index.cfm/contact/email-me-about-an-issue" rel="nofollow">http://lieberman.senate.gov/index.cfm/contact/email-me-about...</a>

As an Argentinian who admires the entrepreneurial spirit of the USA, I'm amazed and appalled at how quickly it is becoming politically intolerant and borderline fascistic.<p>I can't help but draw parallels between cablegate and watergate and wonder if, had watergate occurred nowadays, would there be Senators trying to declare the Post a "terrorist organization" and wanting Bob Woodward dead.<p>Assange should zip all the documents and release them on Tor. Although I doubt the onion routers could whitstand that ammount of traffic.

Cool, they'll have to distribute their content over hard-to-control media (Tor, P2P etc.), thus helping such technologies becoming widespread.<p>Throw in a P2P-based DNS sponsored by COICA, and those elder, digitally illiterate baby-boomer leaders will have done a lot for a freer Internet, although unwillingly.

Amazon defended the child pedo guide based on free speech rights. They completely collapsed here to political pressure.<p>Hypocrites.

This sounds like a job for freenet. <a href="http://freenetproject.org/" rel="nofollow">http://freenetproject.org/</a>

We wouldn't allow Amazon to host DVD rips. Doesn't classified government information deserve a bit <i>more</i> protection than mere copyright, not less?

Honest question: Based on the general sentiment here, is there anything that a government should be legitimately allowed to keep secret?

Amazon didn't bow to political pressure. It made a business decision to protect its <i>other</i> clients from interruption of services that constant, government-level DDOS'ing would cause.

It will be interesting to see the overlap between those decrying this government pressure to infringe upon the free speech rights of an organization, and those decrying the Supreme Court's ruling in <i>Citizens United</i> that such organizations are protected by the First Amendment.

Lieberman is an authoritarian scumbag and a traitor, his loyalties lie with Israel over the U.S.