Shorting PayPal and Amazon

what was said about paypal?

PayPal have stopped accepting donations for wikileaks

Why do you want to short Amazon?

PayPal are owned by eBay.

Whats wrong with ebay/paypal? i think their price can go up to 40 within 6 months.

Paypal - Stopped wikileaks from receiving donations which was their main source of income to pay for server hosting.

Amazon - Terminated the hosting contract, mainly due to pressure from the government.

Pretty bad decisions from both companies imho, the support for wikileaks seems to be quite large.

http://en.rsf.org/wikileaks-hounded-04-12-2010,38958.html

Amazon, Paypal and EveryDNS are going to get such bad press from this. The main media are not only covering this story, they have been actively involved in mirroring all of the documents and appraising wikileaks.

I dont think this will have any affect on those companies share prices at all, if you want something to short, short netflix imo.

it has started: http://thepiratebay.org/

while it peeves me i imagine 90-something per cent of the population couldn't give a toss.

ebay users will still use paypal id like to know what % of their business is via there

Paypal survived the November 2002 debacle. This won't even make a dent on them. I'd love to be wrong.