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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.'"
Yea! Aren't you PROUD to be an American?
I really don't see how just throwing out a bunch of diplomatic cables "helps" the democratic process. More likely than not these companies just don't want to be associated with a group whose reason for being recently seems to be releasing all the sensitive information they can get their hands on, without any sort of analysis. In my book, that's not journalism, and these diplomatic cable releases is far from whistleblowing (99% of these cables don't reveal much of anything), just spying on the US government.
Out of all the cables only a couple hundred are actually damning, or show bad things of any kind.
The rest is gossip.
Even the National Enquirer has a higher rate of good journalism than that.
Why release 49,000 documents of political gossip when 1,000 of them have actual evidence in them?
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
Wiki-leaks is NOT THE PRESS! They don't operate within the ethical guidelines or standards of the press. Blanket revelations of mass quantities of classified information is not journalism. It's not free speech. It's an attack on our country.
I'm too lazy to compose a creative sig.
I suppose it could be revealed that paypal funnels their profits to white supremacy groups. ... http://www.google.com/search?q=paypal+white+supremacy
Oh, wait, they do
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
you are delusional and also ignorant to the point of being a blank log.
prior to 1899, you had unbridled capitalism. entire usa ended up almost being owned by 10 people. 4 of them were most dominant and they were de facto rulers of economy in your country. anything's price, they determined. how much people earn, they determined. what people can read in papers, they determined. who wins elections, they determined.
even going further, there were no regulations in regard to businesses back in roman era that could limit their power. in the end, big farm owners continually pushed prices down by using slave labor and saturating the market with huge grain stocks, made small farmers go bankrupt, bought their farms, started employing them on their fields.
and when people started to move instead of working as slave or almost a slave, moving was banned. then started the principles of what we know as feudalism.
'capitalism' is something unreal. it can never work. there is no 'true capitalism'. in all instances that any society approximated that, it either turned to an empire, or fascism, or another form of aristocracy, or dictatorship.
because, that is at the CORE of capitalism ; ownership. if you let people own unboundedly, there will eventually be people or groups that own SO much that they become the deciders of what happens in a field of life in that country.
there is no solution to this. and no, 'choice' doesnt cut it. whichever grows bigger, is able to undo other competitors more. and eventually a hierarchy will establish itself, and become an aristocracy without being named one.
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