PayPal Withdraws WikiLeaks Donation Service

Posted by timothy on Saturday December 4, 2010 @03:30AM from the no-funds-for-you dept.

ItsIllak writes "The BBC are reporting that PayPal is the latest company to abandon WikiLeaks. The list now includes their DNS providers (EveryDNS) and their hosts (Amazon). PayPal's move is unlikely to result in many more people boycotting the company, as most knowledgeable on-line users will have been refusing to use them for years for a wide variety of abusive practices." Adds reader jg21: "As open source freedom fighter Simon Phipps writes in his ComputerWorldUK blog, behavior like this by Amazon and Tableau [and now PayPal] 'informs us as customers of web services and cloud computing services that we are never safe from intentional outages when the business interests of our host are challenged.'"

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Re:Sauce for the gander by ToasterMonkey · 2010-12-04 04:33 · Score: 1, Flamebait

If you've got nothing to hide you've got nothing to worry about.
Isn't that what they tell us when they pry into our affairs...?
They
vs.
Us
?
How about understand how governments work, AND fight for individual right to privacy?
Holy Christ this is strange, it's YOUR COUNTRY, AND IT IS A DEMOCRACY. You can fight to have your voice heard AND not fuck with your country doing the same.
I'm reminded of the "America is about having your cake and eating it too" Southpark episode. YES, I DO think Southpark is quality education, compared to Rush.