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**beepbeet** · 08-12-2010, 11:04 PM

Mastercard, along with other corporations, have decided to cooperate with governments in preventing wikileaks from operating and receiving financial donations.

This is not about fairness or legal vs illegal, its about doing whatever is possible to ensure that wikileaks, and others who might follow them, are able to continue to operate going forward.

Andrew

Unless Wikileaks is classified as a terrorist organisation, then govts have no authority to deny anyone from donating to them, provided it's via legal means. Various govts around the world are undoubtedly embarrassed by the material that is coming out (my own govt in particularly is having very embarrassing info released each day, including revelations today that one of our senior ministers is an informant to the US embassy), and their response to this has been to act like virtual criminals in their desire to save face. Why are we hearing almost nothing about the attempts to prosecute the person/s who leaked the info to Wikileaks to begin with?

08-12-2010, 11:04 PM	#26
beepbeet Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 424 Senior Member	Mastercard, along with other corporations, have decided to cooperate with governments in preventing wikileaks from operating and receiving financial donations. This is not about fairness or legal vs illegal, its about doing whatever is possible to ensure that wikileaks, and others who might follow them, are able to continue to operate going forward. Andrew Unless Wikileaks is classified as a terrorist organisation, then govts have no authority to deny anyone from donating to them, provided it's via legal means. Various govts around the world are undoubtedly embarrassed by the material that is coming out (my own govt in particularly is having very embarrassing info released each day, including revelations today that one of our senior ministers is an informant to the US embassy), and their response to this has been to act like virtual criminals in their desire to save face. Why are we hearing almost nothing about the attempts to prosecute the person/s who leaked the info to Wikileaks to begin with?
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