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Whenever I see one of these "boycott Amazon" threads I wonder whether that person would be so brave if FBI agents showed up at their door. Because that's what

Whenever I see one of these "boycott Amazon" threads I wonder whether that person would be so brave if FBI agents showed up at their door. Because that's what happened to Amazon here. A very powerful Senator showed up at their door and essentially gave them a choice between dropping WikiLeaks for trying to fend off every possible attack the Government could throw at them. Jeff Bezos was faced with questions like "can the web services business survive if we have to fight the U.S. Government" and "how many people are going to lose their jobs because of the business slow down caused by this" While on the other side all WikiLeaks has to do is go to bittorrent or the NY Time and they can still get the information out.

rhizome 16y ago
"That person" isn't Jeff Bezos, though. Jeff Bezos has been in many tough negotiating positions before, and it's at times like that when one's character is tested. Your proverbial "boycott Amazon person" is likely not going to have their character tested on point regarding Wikileaks, but that can't stop opinion or in, for lack of a better phrase, voting with their hopes. There are a lot of people that wish Amazon didn't accede to becoming a proxy for government censorship and hope that they wouldn't do the same. Bezos wimped out.