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What saddens me is that people are parroting this "violated ToS" line without even thinking about it. It doesn't matter whether you support WL or not; but at least do the bare minimum and _think_ about what you're writing? Where in the ToS does it say that "site can't host classified information" ? And why hasn't NYT's access be pulled yet, because NYT is serving the _same_ documents ?

Here's a fact: US Government publications can't be copyrighted. Period.

So while Amazon tries to hide behind these lies, they're also busy making money off of books about similar "leaks", like the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, etc.




Books and newspapers are protected by the First Amendment, maybe?

Its not clear that wikileaks.org, self-publishing is "the press". Does Lovell v. City of Griffin hold? I don't know. Do you?


And neither does Amazon. And yet they claim to.




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