I will be deleting my account. Over the winter, Paypal froze Wikileaks' donations and blocked all further donations to Wikileaks, allegedly due to the political nature of Wikileaks' work. However, they continue to permit donations to organizations such as the KKK and the EDL, a British white supremacist group tied to the Norwegian ultra-right-wing bomber. Note that there was no legal order from the US government (or any other government) insisting that Paypal block donations to Wikileaks, they did it willingly. Now, as if that were not bad enough, Paypal is working with the FBI to seek the criminalization of nonviolent protest. When Paypal blocked Wikileaks donations the online activist group Anonymous staged the internet version of a sit-in on Paypal's website. No physical harm was done whatsoever, no information was stolen either, this was NOT hacking. The activists simply sent so many requests to the Paypal website that it slowed to a crawl, a result akin to forming a picket line in front of a business entrance or a sit-in taking up all the seats in a segregated restaurant. Now Paypal and the FBI are seeking to prosecute participants in the protest with $500,000 fines and up to 15 years in prison. An article about Paypal and FBI's collaboration: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/07/fbi-working-from-list-of-top-1000-protestors-in-anonymous-raids.ars An article about a 20 year old student facing 15 years in prison for protesting online: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/25/journalism-student-faces-15-years-for-alleged-anonymous-hacktivism/
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