Companies harming Freedom of Speech
Bank of America, Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Western Union & Amazon have clearly taken measures that are threatenning freedom of speech. Here's why Oct 24
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Julian Assange says banking bans have destroyed 95% of whistleblowing site's revenues
WikiLeaks suspends publishing to fight financial blockade
WikiLeaks Planning Legal Action Against PayPal, MasterCard & Visa
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Downed By Its DNS Service Provider
WikiLeaks has been struggling to fend off a DDoS attack ever since it started releasing secret embassy cables, and now it lost one more ally: its DNS services provider, EveryDNS.net.Online Speech is Only as Strong as the Weakest Intermediary
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Amazon’s WikiLeaks Response Threatens Cloud Computing
Dr Joseph Reger: “Cloud-computing’s reputation has been damaged.”Wikileaks is back on Amazon 's servers, barely two weeks after the company said it would stop hosting Wikileaks in a move many suspect was a result of pressure from Western governments.
Wikileaks is back on Amazon's servers
PayPal statement regarding WikiLeaks
PayPal has permanently restricted the account used by WikiLeaks due to a violation of the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy, which states that our payment service cannot be used for any activities that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity.Then What Can I Buy With My Credit Cards and PayPal?
I can use Visa and Mastercard to pay for porn and support anti-abortion fanatics, Prop 8 homophobic bigots, and the Ku Klux Klan .
PayPal Freezes Account of Group Raising Money for Bradley Manning
PayPal has frozen the account of a group that has been raising money for the legal defense of accused WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning, citing a failure to meet PayPal’s requirement for nonprofit groups. According to Courage to Resist, a military veterans advocacy group that has been raising donations for Manning’s defense, PayPal froze the account after the group refused to link its PayPal account to its checking account, which would give the online payment provider access to funds in the checking account. “We exchanged numerous e-mails and phone calls with the legal department and the office of executive escalations of PayPal,” said Jeff Paterson in a press release.
Twitter is censoring the discussion of #Wikileaks
Twitter, the very popular 140 character social networking site, has a feature called “Trends” and is supposed to capture what the most popular topics of discussion are, at any given time.
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