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:Skip paypal by squiggleslash · 2010-12-04 03:48 · Score: 2, Funny

I don't know, I donated to Wikileaks once, and then the following week a package of over 10,000 of my private emails, credit card numbers, social security numbers, etc, was leaked and republished in the New York Times and Guardian Newspaper.
Never again...

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Re:3 cheers for Land of the Free!! by suso · 2010-12-04 04:15 · Score: 4, Funny

Me too.
I see you're an AOL user. Didn't know they were still around.