I hold freedom of speech and the press to be important, and find Amazon’s actions against Wikileaks to be cowardly. Whilst Amazon is entitled to do or not do business with customers as it chooses, I feel that if a business wishes to make profits via its customers it should respect their right to information, even if parts of its government do not.

As a result, I am closing my Amazon account, as has Daniel Ellsberg and, no doubt, many others. This involves sending Customer Service a message from within one’s account pages.

Once I manage to set up an alternative means of payment for one of my domain name registering service providers, I shall also be closing my PayPal account for the same reason.