6 Companies That Haven't Wussed Out of Working with WikiLeaks

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Giants like PayPal, Amazon.com, Visa and MasterCard almost instantly crumbled under government (and p.r.) pressure to drop WikiLeaks, depriving the site of vital funding sources and online platforms. But other companies, some of them small, independent start-ups, have decided to risk the wrath of Joe Lieberman, the State Department, and their European counterparts and help keep WikiLeaks afloat by providing funding sources (yeah, you can now donate to WikiLeaks even if you only have Visa or MasterCard.) and hosting the site. Here's a list of companies that have stood by WikiLeaks:

http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-news-section/368-wikileaks/4224-6-companies-that-havent-wussed-out-of-working-with-wikileaks

[kgnu_fan]

1. kick

[OneGrassRoot]

2. K&R n/t

[sabrina 1]

3. What this did, seeing those businesses jump to

follow the government's orders, was to expose the close ties of this government with big business. Not that we didn't know it, but this was like watching it in action.

These same businesses do businesses with hate groups and if you complained about it, they remind you of the 1st Amendment. But to stop the exposure of government corruption, that arguement about the 1st Amend. would disappear and in its place we would get the now familiar 'it's a private business where the 1st Amendment doesn't apply'.

Someone needs to challenge that in court some day. I mean if a business decided it didn't want to deal with women eg, or blacks, could they still claim that they are a 'private business and the Constitution doesn't apply'?

I hope Wikileaks sues them. There is absolutely no reason for what they did. They claimed they can't deal with people who are doing anything illegal. So the press is now illegal? Wikileaks broke no laws, has never been charged with any law-breaking so that was a lie. I hope they do sue.

[BlueIris]

4. Thanks!

Very surprised to see Facebook and Twitter on there, but good list nonetheless.

[Heidi]

5. Recommended.

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[pipi_k]

6. There's always another side...

Those businesses that "haven't wussed out of working with Wikileaks" could also be accused of wussing out of being the target of Wikileaks hackers.



And the fact that they're still working with Wikileaks could mean anything.

Like maybe they're not worth the time or energy of the Joe Lieberman brigade.

Or maybe they haven't been "threatened" by the Lieberman brigade yet, and if they ever are, they could end up giving in just as quickly as the others did.


I see both sides as being hostage-takers, and right now nobody knows for sure whether those little businesses have given in to one hostage taker until another one comes along.