http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/04/paypal-suspends-wikileaks-account/?ref=asia
December 4, 2010, 5:17 am PayPal Suspends WikiLeaks Account By THE NEW YORK TIMES As the release of hundreds of thousands of United States diplomatic cables brings more attention to WikiLeaks, commercial entities on the Internet have come under increased scrutiny for their business relationships with the organization. The arm of the Internet giant Amazon that provides Web services and the domain name company EasyDNS.Net both severed their ties to WikiLeaks during the course of this week. And now they are being joined by PayPal, the online payment service. The termination of PayPal's relationship with WikiLeaks was described in a blog post on the official PayPal blog: PayPal has permanently restricted the account used by WikiLeaks due to a violation of the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy, which states that our payment service cannot be used for any activities that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity. We've notified the account holder of this action. Clicking on a PayPal donation link at the WikiLeaks website produces a warning that "This recipient is currently unable to receive money." In a Twitter message shortly after 3 a.m., WikiLeaks claimed that PayPal had surrendered to "US government pressure." Another service, Datacell, which claims on its Web site to be under "Swiss/Icelandic control," appears to continue to be accepting donations on behalf of WikiLeaks. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
