KKK OK but not WikiLeaks for some payment processors

[rpannier]

Visa, MasterCard and Pay Pal suffered online outages when they came under attack from WikiLeaks supporters waging cyber-war against the firms they accuse of stifling the project’s activities by stopping payment processing.

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The senior executive of America’s money transfer giant, Pay Pal, said the State Department had written to the company, claiming the online whistleblower had illegally leaked documents. So Pay Pal, along with MasterCard and Visa no longer accept cash donations for the controversial website.

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Later, Pay Pal backtracked on its reasons for acting on the US government’s request, while MasterCard and Visa were most evasive on the issue.
But the general explanation they give for not accepting donation payments for WikiLeaks is that the site “encourages, promotes, facilitates or instructs others to engage in illegal activity."

But, on the other hand, neither MasterCard nor Visa have any problems processing donations for, say, the Ku Klux Klan – a racist, anti-Semitic movement with a history of extreme violence, with goals of racial segregation and white supremacy. And yet it takes seconds to make a donation for the Klan, using your Visa or MasterCard. In this case, MasterCard and Visa are saying, it is all about business. But they are not saying that when it comes to WikiLeaks.

link:
http://rt.com/news/wikileaks-assange-kkk-payment/

I watched the newscast where their reporter too a Visa and a M/C credit card and donated a dollar each to the KKK

[ck4829]

1. K&R

[sendero]

2. The banksters are scared to death..

.. of the public finding out about their business practices. Notice how the pressure on Assange racheted up big time soon after he announced he had something to leak about a big bank.

War is one thing but the banking system must remain cloaked in secrecy AT ALL COSTS.

[Quantess]

5. That's what it is about.

[DenverDad]

3. While I've not read their terms of service. . .

Is that even legal? You know, with the free-market, and all.:shrug:

[nightgaunt]

4. This is a conditional Free Market

Its terms are vague and used inconsistently and judiciously.

The gov't rules in this case and the corps bow down if not bend over gladly. Or they are just using some excuse to do so.

Spineless and soulless come to mind.