More power than any man should have or want in a democracy...

As much as I question the true motives of and the real identities behind the Wiklileaks issue, I don't think my Senator from Connecticut should have this kind of power. This is one of the reasons I believe Wikileaks is not what it claims to be in the first place. Part of its' purpose is to create a phony need to censor the internet as crazy Joe has done in this incidence. What will he decide to censor next?


Lieberman Has Power To Shut Down Websites With A Phone Call

Senator Joe Lieberman, the man behind legislation to give President Obama a kill switch for the Internet in the move towards a Chinese-style government controlled world wide web, now has the power to shut down websites with a mere phone call, as was underscored yesterday when Amazon axed Wikileaks from its servers after being pressured to do so by Lieberman’s Senate Homeland Security Committee.

The revelation that Amazon had killed Wikileaks after the controversial whistle blower organization moved over its servers to Amazon’s cloud network came directly from Lieberman himself, stating that the, “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.”

The decision was made after Lieberman’s staffers called Amazon to pressure the company to axe Wikileaks. “Committee staff had seen news reports yesterday that Wikileaks was being hosted on Amazon’s servers,” reports TPM. “Staffers then, according to the spokeswoman, Leslie Phillips, called Amazon to ask about it, and left questions with a press secretary including, “Are there plans to take the site down?”

Amazon later called back Lieberman’s office to tell them that they had taken down the website. Amazon claimed the take down was because Wikileaks had violated its terms of service, but as TPM’s Rachel Slajda points out, this was a somewhat nebulous reason.

Link:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/lieberman-has-power-to-shut-down-websites-with-a-phone-call.html