Posted on 12/01/2010 11:21:46 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
Edited on 12/01/2010 2:23:59 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Amazon.com has severed ties with controversial website WikiLeaks, the organization that just released a trove of sensitive U.S. State Department documents.
Computers run by Amazon's Elastic Web Compute service in Tulsa, Portland, New York and elsewhere had been hosting the site cablegate.WikiLeaks.org, the Wall Street Journal noted on Tuesday, as well as WikiLeaks.org, the controversial site’s front page.
On Wednesday, the main website and the "cablegate" sub-site devoted to the diplomatic documents were unavailable from the U.S. and Europe. Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said that Amazon told him of the decision to end the relationship between the two companies.
"This morning Amazon informed my staff that it has ceased to host the WikiLeaks website," Liberman said in a public statement. "The company’s decision to cut off WikiLeaks now is the right decision and should set the standard for other companies WikiLeaks is using to distribute its illegally seized material," he said in a statement.
"I call on any other company or organization that is hosting WikiLeaks to immediately terminate its relationship with them," Lieberman added.
In a post to its Twitter feed, WikiLeaks expressed displeasure with the decision.
Smart move.
Someone got to Amazon?
Expected. The feds must be climbing all over them for their logs.
Not good for Christmas sales.
They were probably contemplating what a denial of service attack would do to their Christmas sales. Probably a smart move.
I sent a screamer yesterday.
Maybe being called a traitorous accomplice upset their delicate sensibilities.
Maybe just a little too late.
Ya think?! roflol
Amazon.com was very slow to act.
Nice job
And about time
Perhaps they didn’t want their lawyers arguing why they thought it suitable for them to be facilitating treason.
Indeed they were slow to act.
All right, I bet some Freepers had something to do about this. A little older (1 hour) information here:
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/12/01/wikileaks-relying-amazon-servers/
Amazon is owned and run by one of the biggest progressives out there...pedophiles...hosting wikileaks...just wait...more to come!
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Think I'll take my Christmas shopping elsewhere.
Were they hit by a major DOS attack? The Jester seemed to be hinting they were....but he didn’t claim me was part of it.
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