Wikileaks Says Blockade Threatens its Existence

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<p>[UPDATE</a> 1-WikiLeaks says blockade threatens its existence | Reuters](<a href=“http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/24/britain-wikileaks-idUSL5E7LO2LW20111024]UPDATE”>http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/24/britain-wikileaks-idUSL5E7LO2LW20111024)</p>

<p>Setting aside the issue of whether wikileaks is good or bad, I find it interesting that credit card companies can shut down a business. Wikileaks can still receive checks and cash. Financial sanctions have never worked on rouge countries, but they work on a small business.</p>

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<p>I don’t know about you, but if I have to send a check, I am 99% less likely to donate. Lazy, I know.</p>

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<p>the credit card companies are not shutting down wikileaks. They are simply deciding that they will not do business with wikileaks.</p>

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<p>Another channel for messages unpopular with the government, silenced.</p>

<p>Take note.</p>

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<p>I hate Wikileaks, so i don’t donate to them. Visa and Mastercard may hate Wikileaks and so stop doing business with them. i don’t buy infant clothing anymore, so I am effectively boycotting the local baby store. Just not interested, just not necessary. if YOU think Wikileaks is so important, then YOU go ahead and write them a big check and lobby all your friends to do so. Conspire against the very conspiracy you assume. You are free to do so! Do it! Stop whining about Visa and Mastercard and get off your own sorry butt. Geez — ever hear of “freedom”? Tough concept to grasp, isn’t it . . .</p>

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<p>Why are Visa and Mastercard so threatened by Wikileaks?</p>

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<p>So why can’t they use PayPal?</p>

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<p>^^Because PayPal is also boycotting them.</p>

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<p>This is the second thread in the last two days where I have read the term “whining” used to describe a position taken by another poster. </p>

<p>I wish we could have constructive debates here without having to characterize other posters in pejorative terms.</p>

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<p>Hacker groups who openly support and work with wikileaks have also hacked these companies and taken information as well as causing shut downs and slow downs of many business related internet sites. They should not be surprised they are not going to do business with them.</p>

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<p>Does Wikileaks take Discover?</p>

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<p>it is interesting that these groups will handle donations for all kinds of other groups ( the KKK for example), but not wikileaks.</p>

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<p>Hey, that’s the free market at work. I think it’s a little bit of poetic justice that Assange is calling on the legal authorities to help him out.</p>

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<p>Financial sanctions do a lot of damage to countries but they don’t really bother the dictators in charge of those countries. They have secret accounts and all kinds of other extralegal ways to get and move cash – methods that their people living in poverty don’t. Assange is nowhere near in the league of people like Idi Amin or Saddam Hussein. If WikiLeaks can’t use credit cards any more, they’ll be hurt about as much as if, says, Barnes & Nobles decided not to take credit cards any more.</p>

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<p>Setting aside the issue of whether wikileaks is good or bad, did you know that one of our ambassadors actually got fired over it? I just happened to meet her recently. </p>

<p>[Because</a> Of WikiLeaks Cable, Ecuador Expels U.S. Ambassador : The Two-Way : NPR](<a href=“Ecuador Expels U.S. Envoy Over WikiLeaks Cable : The Two-Way : NPR”>Ecuador Expels U.S. Envoy Over WikiLeaks Cable : The Two-Way : NPR)</p>

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<p>Things are classified for a reason. Release of the information can cause harm to the United States and its interests.</p>

<p>In some cases, it could lead to death for certain people involved. As an example, Robert Hanssen is directly responsible for multiple people being executed.</p>