Tag: Visa
Visa shuts down payments to Wikileaks ~again
It appears that following on the story reported here, Visa have managed to work out what their payment processors are doing and so the “brief, accidental lull in the fighting between WikiLeaks and the card companies that refuse to allow the group donations has ended”, as was reported by Andy Greenburg at Forbes here. DataCell [...]
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Wikileaks able to accept Visa donations?
Despite Visa stating that they have not lifted their financial blockade on Wikileaks, it appears that some of their payment systems have been authorising donations anyway. Certainly, it appears that DataCell, an Icelandic internet hosting service that helps to channel money to Wikileaks, has been able to send some donations. As Andreas Fink, CEO of [...]
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New Wikileaks advert draws attention to the financial blockade
Wikileaks have released a new advert to draw attention to the 6-months financial blockade against them by major companies, namely MasterCard (who keep having issues with their website, in not entirely unrelated news), PayPal, Visa, Bank of America and Western Union. Information direct from Wikileaks, including how you can donate to them, can be found [...]
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