@MOE2010: We're not Iraqi, here in the states. What do we care if their country falls apart when we take away their government we don't like? See what I just did there? If you're going to make an argument, make an argument. Wikileaks' Julian Assange is Australian, immigrated to UK/Sweden. Paypal's decision to close the account, as well as Visa, Mastercard, and Amazon's closures of relevant Wikileaks accounts, is a direct assertion of the status quo.
I'd like to hear of any instance where a Wikileak'd piece of information adversely affects the positive action of the US government or other organizations. That's a pretty lenient request, yes? All I want to know is what has Assange done to wrong anyone other than threaten the ivory tower that has become the US government. Rove leaks CIA names, directly endangering field ops in 07 and no one cares, no one does anything. But when Wikileaks starts releasing memos that the pakistani government is/has been working double against us, that US has been selling weapons to terrorists for decades, or any of the other INFORMATION, people are up in arms. Ignorance, fear, and selfishness disgust me.
Please, please, someone give me a cohesive argument to the latter. PLEASE.
Oh and paypal, I'm incredibly disappointed with the decision. Your service opened as a way to freely and securely make customer and seller-safe transactions over the internet but has transformed into another pawn in the financial industry for government interests. I suppose I could rant on the depravity of the US government that has become a race to keep your job by making it harder for others to get it, not by being productive, intelligent, or improving the lives of the constituents, but I'll just say that any election where the incumbent wins over 90% of the time (overall statistic for US, including congressional, senate, presidential, state congressional, mayoral, and governor elections) is a broken system. Paypal is just part of that system now.
