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Pirate Party MEP Helps Draft New Credit Card Company Controls
Dupple writes with this excerpt: "It has become an increasingly large problem that Visa, MasterCard, and Paypal control the valve to any money flow on the planet. Today, the European Parliament established this as a clear problem, and initiated regulation of the companies, limiting and strictly regulating their right to refuse service. The Pirate Party was the initiator of this regulation, following the damaging cutoff of donations to WikiLeaks, after said organization had performed journalism that was embarrassing to certain governments."
What they always do. Deny service to those people with credit cards from the countries that want to forbid and allow service to those people with credit cards from the countries that mandate it.
The irony is that it was a "true journalist" that accidentally leaked the encryption key to the WikiLeaks archive with the embassy cables. WikiLeaks up to that point seemed to know their limitations and was working with established journalists to release the cables in a controlled fashion.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
There's also the issue that you can donate to the KKK using Visa but can't donate to Wikileaks because Visa have arbitrarily deemed them "guilty" of some crime, most likely at the behest of US Govt.
"Wait. Something's happening. It's opening up! My God, it's full of apricots!"
No, it was the payment service providers Visa, MasterCard and PayPal who took the decisions to block, not the Swedish banks.
Christian Engström, Former Member of the European Parliament 2009-2014 for The Pirate Party, Sweden