Wikileaks Donations Account Shut Down

Scrameustache writes "The whistleblowing group WikiLeaks claims that it has had its funding blocked and that it is the victim of financial warfare by the US government. Moneybookers, a British-registered internet payment company that collects WikiLeaks donations, emailed the organisation to say it had closed down its account because it had been put on an official US watchlist and on an Australian government blacklist. The apparent blacklisting came a few days after the Pentagon publicly expressed its anger at WikiLeaks and its founder, Australian citizen Julian Assange, for obtaining thousands of classified military documents about the war in Afghanistan."

Comments

Re:The sweet irony

[physicsphairy]

The radio stations of which you speak were a propaganda tool meant to weaken the communism regimes and recruit internal supporters. I wouldn't really call them good indicators of America's true motives (although I would submit that Americans did then and continue now to value and promote freedom). How many were set up in the backyard of non-communist oppressors?

I'm also pretty sure if anything you would have found the U.S. more reactive to those releasing confidential military documents during the Cold War. As regards Wikileaks the difference between then and now is mostly the existence of the internet.

Re:Citation Needed

[slack_prad]

The problem with your post is that by 'other human beings' you mean Americans