MasterCard pulls plug on WikiLeaks payments

[Joanne98]

Source: CNET


MasterCard is pulling the plug on payments to WikiLeaks, a move that will dry up another source of funds for the embattled document-sharing Web site, CNET has learned.

"MasterCard is taking action to ensure that WikiLeaks can no longer accept MasterCard-branded products," a spokesman for MasterCard Worldwide said today.

That further limits the revenue sources for WikiLeaks, which has seen its finances systematically attacked in the last few days, as the Swiss authorities shut down a bank account used by editor Julian Assange, and PayPal permanently restricted the account used by the group. WikiLeaks has responded with an increasing number of fund-raising requests that urge supporters to "KEEP US STRONG."

Assuming that MasterCard blocks payments, the only easy way to donate electronically would be with a Visa credit card through a Web page hosted by Iceland-based DataCell.com. Representatives of Visa did not respond to requests for comment from CNET today. (WikiLeaks also solicits payments sent through the U.S. mail.)

MasterCard said it was cutting off payments because WikiLeaks is engaging in illegal activity. "MasterCard rules prohibit customers from directly or indirectly engaging in or facilitating any action that is illegal," spokesman Chris Monteiro said.





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[Ruby the Liberal]

1. All was just fodder until he threatened the banking cabal

You can't refresh the news without one financial.legal avenue or another being shut off today. Oz even closed his PO box this afternoon.

[sarcasmo]

14. I would sure like to know what the Bank of America cabal is all about, but now

wonder if we ever will.

[bemildred]

2. I would like to know how much has been coming in.

But I don't expect they are going to tell us.

[Pavulon]

3. Wikileaks is not transparent. No idea where your money went.

could be going right to Langley.

[Name removed]

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[Pavulon]

6. Oh yep. I am raking in GS15 supergrade salary to post

on teh internet.

[Matariki]

17. lol

:rofl:

got that right.

[bemildred]

7. Now that's an amusing idea. Wikileaks is a CIA front. nt

[Pavulon]

9. it would be fucking epic.

funny.

[bemildred]

10. Blowback. nt

[Alamuti Lotus]

15. I've seen it seriously suggested

all the usual suspects -- CIA front, Mossad front, Chinese front, Republican conspiracy against Obama, etc.. clearly there are some disaffected 'insiders' involved from the various alphabet agencies to supply the material, but to say it's actually a government conspiracy sort of thing is just glorious nonsense really. :bounce:

[bemildred]

40. Nobody likes to give up their little theories, I've been known to do that myself.

And since what I think means squat, if it makes me happy, it's OK. We live in a world in which we are inundated with bullshit, all the while told that we have to believe.

[Alamuti Lotus]

41. Personally, I'd say what you think means at least bit more than squat..

but eh, indeed a good point otherwise.

[leveymg]

46. Yah, there's good quality squat, and then there's shady squat with a past

history. It's okay, either way. That's what makes this place kinda exotic.

[Name removed]

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[leveymg]

45. If you have some evidence of that, would surely like to see it.

We all have hunches. I'm sitting on mine, right now.

[wtmusic]

5. Wikileaks down again.

Looks like truth has an enemy.

[kgnu_fan]

11. It is running now --- a few minutes ago...

[defendandprotect]

35. WikiLeaks still up HERE .... see "support" for donations ....

http://wikileaks.ch/

[kgnu_fan]

8. I hope Julian make sure the bank corruption will be disclosed to the public

He will not be stopped one way or another.

[elehhhhna]

12. Did they cancel the Bin Laden's credit cards after 9/11?

Doubt it.

This is the free enterprise they so love? LOLOLOLOL

[tomm2thumbs]

26. And do Dick Cheney and George W Bush still have their MasterCards after torture?

seems to me someone needs to get their priorities straight in the bankster business

[elehhhhna]

27. MC is also how you spend your offshore money

without attracting the IRS's attention.

MC facilitates more fraud and money laundering than we can imagine.

[Downwinder]

13. What illegal activity? Do they have to prove that in court?

Wonder if they pulled cards at the NYT. Fat chance.

[24601]

16. Pun intended: "Priceless" n/t

[harvey007]

18. What Mastercard didn't announce

"Of course we at Mastercard will continue allowing the world's most evil, murderous tyrants to continue using our products."

http://www.mastercard.com/us/company/en/ourcompany/officers.html

[Devil_Fish]

19. What illegal activity??? What law was broken??? what are the charges????NT

[bhikkhu]

32. Exactly.

[davidwparker]

20. Oh, so Mastercom gets to decide how I can spend money?

Release those bank files NOW.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

21. Can they do that?...Can they dictate to me what I can do with my money?!!!

[cbdo2007]

22. Isn't it their money you are barrowing? You can still send them cash.

[Ruby the Liberal]

23. They can dictate what they process.

Just like you can't sell child porn or illegal drugs.

Hell, take a look at eBay TOS and you will be amazed what companies will and will not process through their systems.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

36. So they can prevent me from making donations to my Democratic candidates too?

[dixiegrrrrl]

38. If they wanted to, yep.

Not only can they cut you off, they can report who you sent money to.

Would not surprise me if they had a list of Wiki supporters they are giving to the black hats already.

One of the reasons I use cash a lot more nowdays.

[tomm2thumbs]

24. So MasterCard is in the cables too I assume??

The more they scream, the more everyone wonders what all the screaming is about, no?

[EFerrari]

25. But I bet I can still donate to the torture president's "library" with MC. n/t

[David Zephyr]

29. Julian has the all the power brokers hot and bothered, doesn't he?

To paraphrase Marx: A spectre (wikileaks) is haunting the Globe...and all the powers of old Europe and the world have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.

[trud]

30. donate link via IP address since wikileaks.org has been taken out of the DNS machines

http://213.251.145.96/support.html

[Onlooker]

31. This is an attack by big business

There is no due process, no legal basis, just private business in collusion with government abusing its power.

[bhikkhu]

33. The list of corrupt corporations who will get nothing more from me is growing...

Apparently it doesn't matter to these guys that no charges have been made, and in the US at least free speech allows Wikileaks to publish the information it has, the same as it allows DU and everyone else to repeat the information Wikileaks publishes.

[StarsInHerHair]

34. scary, when do they start with the 'professional left' or any other unwanted

person or group?

[Blue_Tires]

37. i didn't even know MC could even FAKE moral outrage and following rule of law

[L. Coyote]

39. Boycott Mastercard

simple enough

[Imagevision]

42. The MSM will simply stop reporting on Wikileaks like they did with BP disaster...

[EFerrari]

44. I think that may be the plan.

bemildred posted an article by Scott Shane (NYTs) that seemed to imply, although there is a lot more material, the papers were losing interest.

[chaukeedaar]

43. ...for everything else there's MasterCard

Thats my small input to the subject...

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