Capital's War Against WikiLeaks

[kster]

Common Dreams.org

Can the leak phenonomen sustain the continued assault by the corporate sector to prevail in the first ever cyber-war?

by Mark Levin

When your Swiss banker throws you overboard, you know you've made some very powerful enemies.

Long famed for hiding money for everyone from Nazis and drug lords to spies and dictators, the Swiss government's banking arm has decided that WikiLeaks and Julian Assange are just too hot even for it to handle.

And so the PostFinance, which runs the country's banks, declared in early December that it had "ended its business relationship with WikiLeaks founder Julian Paul Assange" after accusing Mr. Assange of - gasp! - providing false information about his place of residence.

This move followed similar moves by credit card companies MasterCard and Visa, as well as PayPal and Amazon.com, to no longer process WikiLeaks payments and, in Amazon.com's case, to cease hosting its data.

As I write this, Bank of America has joined the crescendo of corporations taking aim at WikiLeaks, refusing to process payments for it any longer because of "our reasonable belief that WikiLeaks may be engaged in activities that are, among other things, inconsistent with our internal policies for processing payments."



http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/12/29-11

[DCKit]

1. Time for Wikileaks to dump everything.

Especially the dirt on the banksters.

[phasma ex machina]

3. Who needs Julian's overrated bankster (BofA) dirt? Allstate's suing BofA. nt

[DCKit]

4. True, but a full-on assault from several quarters, on every firm, would be such a hoot. nt

[phasma ex machina]

5. You have a point, more is better when taking down bankster pigs.

On edit: Getting played makes me feel bitter. Julian needs to come through.

[upi402]

2. Imagine if he outed a CIA hand in Africa

gawd we are soooo corrupt

[unkachuck]

6. "...you've made some very powerful enemies."

....it seems everyone's gunnin' for Julian and WikiLeaks....the more they attack him and WikiLeaks the more important and heroic they become....that is, your importance being measured by the power and size of your adversaries....

....I'm embarrassed to admit I know very little about WikiLeaks and Mr. Assange but then again, I don't need to....if all these secretive, powerful corporations and entities, most of whom are enemies of the people and truth, are lining up to destroy WikiLeads and Mr. Assange, then WikiLeaks and Mr. Assange must be extremely valuable to us....

[Wednesdays]

7. K&R

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