effamazoncensorshipwikileaksdemocracyspeehgovernmentAmazon and WikiLeaks - Online Speech is Only as Strong as the Weakest Intermediary | Electronic Frontier Foundation
While it's frustrating to think of any hosting provider cutting services to a website because it considers the content too politically volatile or controversial, it's especially disheartening to see Amazon knuckle under to pressure from a single senator. Other Internet intermediaries should now expect to receive a phone call when some other member of Congress is unhappy with speech they are hosting. After all, it worked on Amazon.