Hola, colegas: el tema de Wikileaks y su persecución por el establishment (cualquier tipo, rama, variante, ... de establishment) está dando mucho que escribir. He aquí un ejemplo de lo que se puede hacer si no se está de acuerdo con Amazon al respecto.
Desde un punto de vista estrictamente pofesional, más problemática es la decisión de la Biblioteca del Congreso: http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2010/12/why-the-library-of-congress-is-blocking-wikileaks/. Aquí tenéis una reacción entre otras muchas: http://librarian.lishost.org/?p=3325. Esperemos que los expertos en ética profesional bibliotecaria que últimamente han proliferado por aquí (en el debate sobre la biblia y su colocación en las estanterías, por ejemplo) nos ilustren sobre las indudables raíces judeocristianas occidentales tanto del bloqueo como de la propia Wikileaks. A pasarlo todo lo bien que podáis, colegas! ---------------------------- Mensaje original ---------------------------- Asunto: [plgnet-l] Ellsberg to Amazon on Wikileaks Desde: [email protected] Fecha: 2010.12.05 6:27 pm A: [email protected] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Open Letter to Amazon.com By Daniel Ellsberg Sunday, December 05, 2010 To Customer Service and Jeff Bezos, I’m disgusted by Amazon’s cowardice and servility in abruptly terminating 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’s control of information and deterrence of whistle-blowing. For the last several years, I’ve been spending over $100 a month on new and used books from Amazon. That’s over. I have contacted Customer Service to 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. 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’re shifting their business. I’ve asked friends today to suggest alternatives. I’ve removed all links to Amazon from my site, and I’ll be exploring service from Powell’s Books, IndieBound, Biblio and others. 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—and the details of the hasty kowtowing by their bosses—to leak that information. They can send it to Wikileaks (now on servers outside the US), to mainstream journalists or bloggers, or perhaps to a site like antiwar.com, which has now appropriately ended its book-purchasing association with Amazon and called a boycott. If you’d like to read further analysis of your cowardice, I suggest you see this excellent article by Glenn Greenwald. Yours (no longer), http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2010/12/02/daniel-ellsberg-says-boycott-amazon/ _______________________________________________ plgnet-l site list [email protected] http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/plgnet-l Biblioteca Facultad de Psicología Campus de Cartuja, Universidad de Granada E-18071 GRANADA Tlfno: +34 958 240601 Fax: +34 958 242976 / +34 958 249608 ---------------------------------------------------- Los archivos de IWETEL pueden ser consultados en: http://listserv.rediris.es/archives/iwetel.html ----------------------------------------------------
