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Amazon
stops hosting WikiLeaks
Thursday December 02, 2010 07:13:54 PM ,
IANS
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London:
Amazon, after facing criticism for hosting WikiLeaks, has cut off
the whistleblowing website from its servers, it was reported here
Thursday.
Following calls from US senators for a boycott of WikiLeaks by US
companies, neither the main website or the sub-site were available
to internet users in the US or Europe Wednesday due to a refusal
by Amazon servers to acknowledge data requests, the Daily
Telegraph reported.
Joe Lieberman, a senator and chairman of the homeland security
committee, said: "Amazon'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."
"I call on any other company or organisation that is hosting
WikiLeaks to immediately terminate its relationship with them."
WikiLeaks tweeted in response: "WikiLeaks servers at Amazon
ousted. Free speech the land of the free - fine our $ are now
spent to employ people in Europe."
WikiLeaks, which is under US criminal investigation for the
release of classified documents, turned to Amazon to keep its site
available after hackers tried to flood it and thus prevent users
from accessing the classified information posted.
Amazon, the US-based online retailer, is a major provider of
web-hosting services, renting out space on its computer servers to
customers around the world.
Amazon.com would not comment on its relationship with WikiLeaks or
whether it forced the site to leave.
The latest expose of WikiLeaks was the release of more than
250,000 secret US documents Sunday, which exposed years of
diplomatic communications and provided candid assessments of world
leaders.
The leaking of confidential and sensitive diplomatic documents has
been met with outrage and anger in some parts of the US.
According to the daily, there have been calls in the US for the
death penalty to be imposed on the person who leaked documents to
the WikiLeaks. At present Private First Class Bradley Manning is
in custody as the chief suspect in the inquiry.
Former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and ex-Pentagon
official K.T. McFarland were among those claiming the guilty party
should face execution for putting national security at risk by
leaking the inflammatory information, the report said.
Meanwhile Sarah Palin, who is tipped to run for the American
presidency in 2012, has called for WikiLeaks founder Julian
Assange to be hunted down "with the same urgency we pursue Al
Qaeda and Taliban leaders".
The Obama administration has said that it "deeply regrets" the
leaking of the embarrassing cables that have disclosed exactly
what American diplomats think of foreign leaders and promised to
take "aggressive steps" against those who "stole" them.
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