WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is no stranger to legal controversy.  After all, the founder of WikiLeaks is on Interpol’s wanted, or red, list due to suspected sexual assaults in Sweden, and that’s before he started poking at the slumbering giant of the US legal system by posting classified documents on his website.   It’s the controversial material on WikiLeaks that got the company dropped by its web host, Amazon.com, yesterday.

“I wish that Amazon had taken this action earlier based on WikiLeaks’ previous publication of classified material,” said chairman of the Homeland Security Committee Joseph Lieberman.  The Senator added, “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.”

While Amazon would not comment why it severed its relationship with WikiLeaks, the Amazon Terms Of Service agreement signed by all people seeking web hosting with Amazon states that hosting can be terminated if it receives notice that its web hosting is being used by clients “for any illegal purpose or in a way that violates the law.”  The Obama administration has said repeatedly that the classified documents WikiLeaks released were released to the public illegally.

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