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Because Amazon does not appear to have been compelled by law, so there's no law to change - just a vague sense of not wanting to be on the wrong side of powerful people. This is how the mafia works. It shouldn't be how the government works.

The people at Amazon might not actually like Wikileaks or the PR it brings. The government might not have anything to do with it.

Except that we know that the government did contact Amazon and ask them to stop hosting wikileaks.

The goal is to make 2 worse than 1 so that future companies, when faced with similar government pressure, will make a different choice.

As EFF says "Other Internet intermediaries should now expect to receive a phone call when some other member of Congress is unhappy with speech they are hosting. After all, it worked on Amazon."

I think a whole lot of people would react to 'those who wrote and enforce the laws' when scenario 1 was picked. Shutting down Amazon sounds a bit to extreme imo.