Amazon Evicts WikiLeaks
In addition to selling books, Amazon does a nice side business hosting websites. WikiLeaks was paying for space on Amazon servers this week until the retailer sent the leakers packing . No comment so far from Amazon, but WikiLeaks, now hosted in Sweden , responded with a dig about “the land of the free.” According to Computer World, WikiLeaks turned to Amazon in order to cope with the ongoing denial of service attacks meant to shut down the site.
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