Yesterday:Amazon Boots Wikileaks. Today: Sells Cables Online for Profit

[TalkingDog]

Ain't America Grand? Or all about the $Grand.

http://swns.com/amazon-backlash-after-website-starts-selling-wikileaks-cables-091456.html

The batch of 250,000 US classified documents were available free to users of the WikiLeaks website before it was taken offline following pressures from authorities.

However, the cables have now been repackaged by Amazon user Heinz Duthel and are available as an eBook for the Amazon Kindle – priced at £7.37.

The item’s description states that the cables ”contain US officials’ comments on foreign governments and leaders and speculation about the activities and manoeuvres of the latter, as well as details about American foreign policy operations.”

However, the revelation that Amazon is profiting from WikiLeaks after it pulled the plug on the website’s hosting has prompted an angry backlash in the internet community.

[ejpoeta]

1. is this a joke? satire? the onion?

[TalkingDog]

2. *sigh* sadly.....no

[ejpoeta]

4. assange isn't profiting from this.... if amazon is, then shouldn't they be sitting in jail now

too? wtf is this!!

[bluesbassman]

3. So if Amazon is providing the cables, is Jeff Bezos going to jail too?

Riiiiight.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Report it to Janet, right damn now!!!!!!!

I see it.
It looks...suspicious.

[sasha031]

6. nothing surprises me anymore

:wtf:

[valerief]

7. The pols who did the most squawking against health insurance reform

were the first ones to squawk about not getting their govt health insurance.

Hypocrisy is an American virtue now, I believe.