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Swedish Pirate Party Presses Charges Against Banks For WikiLeaks Blockade

Posted by Unknown on from the obey-the-law dept.

davecb writes "Rick Falkvinge reports today that the Swedish Pirate Party has laid charges against at least Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal before the Finansinspektionen for refusing to pass on money owed to WikiLeaks. The overseer of bank licenses notes (in translation) that 'The law states, that if there aren't legal grounds to deny a payment service, then it must be processed.'"

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  1. Re:Excellent. by NicBenjamin · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes there are US Laws.

    Trouble is Wikileaks broke them. You don't have to like that the US Government declared everything Bradley Manning sent them to be Classified, and declared repeating said information to be illegal, but you do have to acknowledge that these events did actually happen.

    And if your organization's main goal is to break US Law, then you don't get to do business with US-Based Financial Firms. Which just happens to be all of them.