Daniel Ellsberg Calls For Leaks From Amazon Insiders On WikiLeaks Snub

[Turborama]

Dec. 3 2010 - 10:19 am

Andy Greenberg
THE FIREWALL

There are two very different versions of the story leading up to Amazon’s decision to boot WikiLeaks from its hosting services Wednesday. And Daniel Ellsberg, the leaker of 1971’s iconic Pentagon Papers, knows something about how to find the right one.

In an http://www.ellsberg.net/archive/open-letter-to-amazon">open letter to Amazon on his website, the former military analyst and antiwar activist called for Amazon employees to come forward with information detailing Amazon’s decision to cut off WikiLeaks as a customer in the midst of the site’s controversial publication of a quarter million secret diplomatic cables.

This would be a good time for Amazon insiders who know and perhaps can document the political pressures that were brought to bear—and the details of the hasty kowtowing by their bosses—to leak that information. They can send it to Wikileaks (now on servers outside the US), to mainstream journalists or bloggers, or perhaps to a site like antiwar.com, which has now appropriately ended its book-purchasing association with Amazon and called a boycott.

I should add that agreenberg (at) forbes.com wouldn’t be a bad place to send those leaks either.

On Thursday night, Amazon defended its decision to cut off WikiLeaks in a blog post, countering claims that it had caved to Senator Lieberman’s political pressure. “There have been reports that a government inquiry prompted us not to serve WikiLeaks any longer,” reads the statement. “That is inaccurate.”

Full article: http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2010/12/03/daniel-ellsberg-calls-for-leaks-from-amazon-on-wikileaks-snub/

[Iterate]

1. No free speech, just books for sale

I hope we can finally kill the myth of the enlightened corporation.

Oh, and this bit of irony:

The Pentagon Papers - U.S.-Vietnam Relations, 1945-1967 (Kindle Edition)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0038HEOL8/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_2?pf_rd_p=1278548962&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=007028380X&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=19ZQFQS9HWSN8WJM0VDSURL">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0038HEOL8

[librechik]

2. Amazon donates tons to RW causes

they folded becasue that's who they are.

[Turborama]

3. I didn't know that

Any other online booksellers you can recommend as an alternative?

[EFerrari]

4. If you were here, I'd say Powell's.

Bu I don't know where they ship to. It's a great store.

[Turborama]

5. Thanks a lot, they look like a really good alternative

I'm looking into the shipping details now. :thumbsup: :hi:

[EFerrari]

6. If It doesn't work, there are other great stores on this coast

like City Lights in San Francisco. :hi: