[Foundation-l] Paypal removal?

[teun spaans]

It was a matter of time before someone brought this subject up ;)

The refusal of paypal, mastercard and visa to process payments to wikileaks
is something i have watched with concern. Effectively, the victim has been
denied the acceptance of gifts and payments without any court involvement.
What this means for freedom and justice i leave to your own conclusions.

Should not any action be directed to all three or four organizations? But i
doubt anything is achieved by denying ourselves gifts.

I wish you joy and happiness,
teun spaans

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Robert Tice <robtice2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I suggest that use of Paypal is contraindicated due to their deliberate
> efforts to inhibit the spread of information by closing their account with
> Wikileaks.  It is inappropriate for Wiki to be associated with Paypal or
> Amazon.com.  These corporations are the opposite of what Wikipedia and
> associated entities hope to be or currently are.  Closing the account with
> Paypal will also send a message to Amazon that there are consequences to
> efforts to censor the knowledge base of humanity.
>
> Thanks for reading this.  I hope to see debate and action on this proposal.
>
> Robert T.
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