The Amazon company has pulled WikiLeaks from Amazon servers. After denial of service attacks began hitting WikiLeaks, the website moved to Amazon Web Services, which provides self-service web hosting. Amazon did not want anything to do with WikiLeaks after great controversy has erupted over the site.
Protest causes Amazon to drop WikiLeaks
A lot of DDOS, or distributed denial of service, happened on WikiLeaks following the “Cablegate” series happened. This caused Amazon Web Services to take up the site. It happened pretty quickly. The Guardian reports that Senator Joe Lieberman asked companies in The US to start boycotting WikiLeaks which in turn had the Amazon Web Service kick the site off. "Fine our $ are now spent to employ people in Europe" was what WikiLeaks posted on its Twitter page after this happened. The business also said that Amazon needed to "get out of the business of selling books" if Amazon wasn't going to follow the first Amendment.
Julian Assange wanted in Europe
Julian Assange is the head of WikiLeaks. The Swedish government put out a warrant for his arrest. Each and every so often, Assange's name comes up in Sweden for sexual assault charges. This is what the Christian Science Monitor reports. Assange could be arrested in any nation he is found in though since the Interpol, which is the international police organization, issued a "red notice". The warrant is more of a recommendation than anything else. Australia, Assange’s home country, and also the United States are mulling criminal charges. Assange’s mother recently said in an interview that her son is principled and doing what he believes is right and “fighting baddies, if you like.”.
Outrage mounting
The international community has responded quite a bit to the diplomatic cables that WikiLeaks released. What the ultimate fate of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks could be is unknown, but seems like that the organization is probably not able to operate with impunity eventually.
Details from
The Guardian
guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/01/wikileaks-website-cables-servers-amazon?CMP=twt_gu
twitter.com/wikileaks
CS Monitor
csmonitor.com/World/Global-Issues/2010/1201/WikiLeaks-Julian-Assange-is-merely-fighting-baddies-says-his-mom
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