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PayPal Withdraws WikiLeaks Donation Service
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.'"
Do you truly in your heart that the US still has a representative democracy?
That's been gone since the end of WWII.
If it were possible to have change, don't you think the big Change Monger in the white house would have managed some by now?
The only change that will happen in the US is when the country sinks into a Balkinized morass of petty regional nations. The only ones who will not suffer will be those with enough money to buy food and clean water. And be able to pay for their own private army.
You should read more fiction describing future scenarios. Fiction often portrays the future. When you recognize a bad path after having read of it, you begin to see how the ending turns out.
Your votes are meaningless when the representatives won't and can't change anything. Differences between parties? Bullshit. They have only one goal: To be the ones in charge. They don't give two shits for anyone but themselves. As long as the "proles" can be kept happy with bread and circuses they have nothing to worry about. You go back to watching your reality TV, sports, and game shows. Relax, it won't hurt for long.