WikiLeaks Bypasses Financial Blockade With Bitcoin

forbes.com 20 Aug '12, 1pm

WikiLeaks Bypasses Financial Blockade With Bitcoin

Move up http://i.forbesimg.com t Move down WikiLeaks Reopens Channel For Credit Card Donations, Dares Visa And MasterCard To Block Them Again Andy Greenberg Forbes Staff As Ecuador Grants Assange Asylum, Former UK Ambassador Says Embassy Raid Is Coming Andy Greenberg Forbes Staff People shouldn’t fear their government; government should fear its people. Publishers and journalists will not be intimidated nor silenced. Now entering day 626 of the financial blockade against WikiLeaks, Julian Assange sits in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London awaiting safe passage. Following a massive release of secret U.S. diplomatic cables in November 2010, donations to WikiLeaks were blocked by Bank of America, VISA, MasterCard, PayPal and Western Union on December 7th, 2010. Although private companies certainly have a right to select which transactions to process or not, the political enviro...

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Time Magazine declares that WikiLeaks “could be as important a journalistic tool as the Freedom of Information Act.” [link]
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@FurqanAMC » 25 Aug '12, 4pm
Bernyali-Konsisten-Kreatif! “@YuldenErwin: Ini cara Wikileaks menggalang dana publik di seluruh dunia. [link]" cc: @FurqanAMC”
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Ini cara Wikileaks menggalang dana publik di seluruh dunia. [link]" cc: @FurqanAMC
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