re: #8 BishopX

PayPal has admitted that they froze the wikileaks account after the state dept asked them to. I wouldn’t be surprised if MasterCard and Visa have been asked as well.

Not quite correct — PayPal said the State Department contacted them and said Wikileaks was engaged in illegal activity. They did not say that State asked them to suspend the account.

The site’s vice-president of platform, Osama Bedier, told an internet conference the site had decided to freeze WikiLeaks’s account on 4 December after government representatives said it was engaged in illegal activity.

“State Dept told us these were illegal activities. It was straightforward,” he told the LeWeb conference in Paris, adding: “We … comply with regulations around the world, making sure that we protect our brand.”