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Originally Posted by Wizzo
1st amendment doesn't protect stolen documents and nothing to do with this.
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Eh... I'm afraid the question of First Amendment protection for publication of pilfered documents is not even close to being that cut and dry.
Whether or not there are First Amendment problems with Amazon's decision, the larger questions of whether Assange's/Wikileaks' actions are illegal and whether Assange has committed a crime for which he can be prosecuted in the U.S. could definitely raise some substantive First Amendment issues.
For those interested in expert discussion of the legal issues surrounding Wikileaks, check out the ongoing conversation taking place on
OpinioJuris.
Shockingly, the OJ bloggers (a collection of law professors from various respected law schools) are just
a bit more authoritative on questions of law than is the GFY populace..... ;-)