You were asked to remove them by (a) government official(s), and like sheep you did.
Bad, bad move. Bah.
After suffering aggressive cyber attacks last weekend, Assange removed his "cablegate" site from servers in Sweden and purchased a new home for it on Amazon's web hosting service. On Tuesday, Amazon talked on the phone with the office of Sen. Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate's committee on homeland security.
Shortly thereafter, Amazon booted WikiLeaks. The senator responded with a statement: "I wish that Amazon had taken this action earlier based on WikiLeaks' previous publication of classified material. The company'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."
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Update 2010 12-04: I sent a mail to Amazon (UK and USA) requesting to close my account with them. I've done a lot of business at these sites over the years but they are not the only book/CD/DVD sellers out there. Like many others, I will purchase what I want elsewhere in future.
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