{"id":8781,"date":"2010-12-06T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T23:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=8781"},"modified":"2010-12-04T02:28:32","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T01:28:32","slug":"daniel-ellsberg-says-boycott-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2010\/12\/daniel-ellsberg-says-boycott-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Ellsberg Says Boycott Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Open letter to Amazon.com Customer Service:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>December 2, 2010<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m disgusted by Amazon\u2019s cowardice and servility in abruptly terminating today its hosting of the Wikileaks website, in the face of threats from Senator Joe Lieberman and other Congressional right-wingers. I want no further association with any company that encourages legislative and executive officials to aspire to China\u2019s control of information and deterrence of whistle-blowing.<\/p>\n<p>For the last several years, I\u2019ve been spending over $100 a month on new and used books from Amazon. That\u2019s over. I ask Amazon to terminate immediately my membership in Amazon Prime and my Amazon credit card and account, to delete my contact and credit information from their files and to send me no more notices.<\/p>\n<p>I understand that many other regular customers feel as I do and are responding the same way. Good: the broader and more immediate the boycott, the better. I hope that these others encourage their contact lists to do likewise and to let Amazon know exactly why they\u2019re shifting their business. I\u2019ve asked friends today to suggest alternatives, and I\u2019ll be exploring service from Powell\u2019s Books, Half-Price Books, Biblio and others.<\/p>\n<p>So far Amazon has spared itself the further embarrassment of trying to explain its action openly. This would be a good time for Amazon insiders who know and perhaps can document the political pressures that were brought to bear\u2013and the details of the hasty kowtowing by their bosses\u2013to leak that information. They can send it to Wikileaks (now on servers outside the US), to mainstream journalists or bloggers, or perhaps to sites like <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/\" >antiwar.com<\/a> that have now appropriately ended their book-purchasing association with Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>Yours (no longer),<br \/>\nDaniel Ellsberg<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/02\/daniel-ellsberg-says-boycott-amazon\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 antiwar.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open letter to Amazon.com Customer Service: December 2, 2010 &#8211; I\u2019m disgusted by Amazon\u2019s cowardice and servility in abruptly terminating today its hosting of the Wikileaks website, in the face of threats from Senator Joe Lieberman and other Congressional right-wingers. I want no further association with any company that encourages legislative and executive officials to aspire to China\u2019s control of information and deterrence of whistle-blowing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}