PayPayl Announces It Will No Longer Handle Wikileaks Donations

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Post by audreyw » Sat, Dec 04, 2010, 6:21 AM UTC

PayPayl Announces It Will No Longer Handle Wikileaks Donations
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Re: PayPayl Announces It Will No Longer Handle Wikileaks Donations

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Post by zbruhnke » Sat, Dec 04, 2010, 6:23 AM UTC

I hope WePay jumps in and takes up the donations ... freedom of speech is important. Even if you do not agree with what WikiLeaks is doing they should have the right to operate and receive donations

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Post by m0nastic » Sat, Dec 04, 2010, 7:27 AM UTC

The most surprising thing to me was the fact that Wikileaks was using Paypal at all. It seems like Paypal is a terrible choice if you're doing something even slightly controversial.

Although I'm not sure what their other options would be.

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Post by wladimir » Sat, Dec 04, 2010, 8:35 AM UTC

m0nastic wrote: post #3

The most surprising thing to me was the fact that Wikileaks was using Paypal at all. It seems like Paypal is a terrible choice if you're doing something even slightly controversial. Although I'm not sure what their other options would be.

There are enough alternative payment system.

They were probably 'testing' Paypal, just like they did with Amazon.

Turns out another US company is unreliable.

Re: PayPayl Announces It Will No Longer Handle Wikileaks Donations

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Post by m0nastic » Sat, Dec 04, 2010, 9:23 AM UTC

wladimir wrote: post #4

m0nastic wrote: post #3

The most surprising thing to me was the fact that Wikileaks was using Paypal at all. It seems like Paypal is a terrible choice if you're doing something even slightly controversial. Although I'm not sure what their other options would be.

There are enough alternative payment system. They were probably 'testing' Paypal, just like they did with Amazon. Turns out another US company is unreliable.

Right, but they had already had their Paypal account frozen in the past. Once they were able to resolve that, I fail to see how the first order of business wasn't "move all of our money out of that account and find an alternative payment processor".

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Post by Vidura » Sat, Dec 04, 2010, 10:42 AM UTC

So isn't there any way to send and receive money online without getting tracked and rejected by services like Paypal.

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Post by Vidura » Sat, Dec 04, 2010, 10:43 AM UTC

So Let's boycott PayPal.