Thursday, December 02, 2010

Rachel Slajda: After Getting Amazon To Boot Wikileaks, Lieberman Eyes Other Firms

After Getting Amazon To Boot Wikileaks, Lieberman Eyes Other Firms (VIDEO)
by Rachel Slajda
Talking Points Memo

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, yesterday succeeded in getting Amazon.com to boot Wikileaks off its servers.

Now, Lieberman says he's widening his scope.

"We've gotta put pressure on any companies -- like Amazon, [which] just cut Wikileaks off from its servers to distribute -- there's a company now in Sweden, I think it's called Bahnhof, which is providing that kind of access to the Internet to Wikileaks," he said on MSNBC this afternoon. "We've got to stop them from doing that."

As TPM reported yesterday, Lieberman's committee staff called Amazon and asked, "Are there plans to take the site down?"

Amazon responded by removing the site, telling the committee it violated unspecified terms of use.

TPM yesterday asked a committee spokeswoman, Leslie Phillips, whether Lieberman was planning to reach out to other companies.

"The committee is not reaching out to other companies," she said. "Senator Lieberman hopes that the Amazon case will send the message to other companies that might host Wikileaks that it would be irresponsible to host the site."

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