{"id":225018,"date":"2010-01-25T04:38:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T09:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100124\/1846137886.shtml"},"modified":"2010-01-25T04:38:33","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T09:38:33","slug":"paypal-suspends-wikileaks-account-yet-again-freezes-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/225018","title":{"rendered":"PayPal Suspends WikiLeaks Account Yet Again; Freezes Assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wikileaks is an incredibly useful and important site, but there are many (mainly in the government) who would prefer it go away.  It&#8217;s somewhat upsetting to find out that <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/story\/10\/01\/23\/2138204\/PayPal-Freezes-the-Assets-of-Wikileaksorg\" >PayPal has (for the second time) frozen all of WikiLeaks&#8217; assets<\/a>.  Apparently, the last time this happened it took nearly six months to resolve.  That seems problematic:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\nPaypal has as of 23rd of January 2010 frozen WikiLeaks assets. This is the second time that this happens. The last time we struggled for more than half a year to resolve this issue. By working with the respected and recognized German foundation Wau Holland Stiftung we tried to avoid this from happening again &#8212; apparently without avail.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: Wikileaks has now removed this message from its website, so it appears that things have been resolved.  I&#8217;m a bit confused, however, as to why Wikileaks continues to use PayPal given this issue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100124\/1846137886.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100124\/1846137886.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20100124\/1846137886&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=d25a6890dde3799cb575f7d25894e678&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=d25a6890dde3799cb575f7d25894e678&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=UjiNb5KZ59o:z2J09Td6n0s:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=UjiNb5KZ59o:z2J09Td6n0s:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=UjiNb5KZ59o:z2J09Td6n0s:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/UjiNb5KZ59o\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikileaks is an incredibly useful and important site, but there are many (mainly in the government) who would prefer it go away. It&#8217;s somewhat upsetting to find out that PayPal has (for the second time) frozen all of WikiLeaks&#8217; assets. Apparently, the last time this happened it took nearly six months to resolve. That seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}