Posts Tagged ‘banks’
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Assange banks on Labour as Tories block embassy exit
The Independent The Ecuadorean government believes there is so little prospect of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange leaving its London embassy in the near future that it has held talks with the Labour Party in a bid to strike a deal that would see him sent to Sweden to face … |
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Julian Assange banks on Labour as Tories block Ecuadorean embassy exit
The Independent The Ecuadorean government believes there is so little prospect of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange leaving its London embassy in the near future that it has held talks with the Labour Party in a bid to strike a deal that would see him sent to Sweden, where he … |
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Assange banks on Australia senate seat bid
News24 Canberra – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange regards his bid to become an Australian senator as a defence against potential criminal prosecution in the United States and Britain, a news website reported on Monday. Assange spoke to The Conversation … |
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Techdirt: Swedish Pirate Party Sues Banks For 'Discriminating' Against Wikileaks
NewsFactor Network Earlier this year, we noted that a court in Iceland had ordered Visa to start accepting donations to Wikileaks again. There's been some cat and mouse games as the various payment processors, under pressure from US officials, cut off the site a while back. |
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Concerned about WikiLeaks donation blocks, Swedish party reports banks to …
PC Advisor Since 2010, a number of payment service providers, including Visa, MasterCard and PayPal, have blocked donations to WikiLeaks through its payments processor DataCell. The Swedish Pirate Party says that this behavior is unacceptable and a cause for … |
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Pirate Party files charges against Swedish banks over WikiLeaks lockdown.
Finextra The Swedish Pirate Party has filed formal charges against Swedish banks accusing them of systematic discrimination against whistleblowing Web site WikiLeaks, which has been denied donations by payment providers since 2010. Numerous payment … |
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Swedish Pirate Party Sues Banks For 'Discriminating' Against Wikileaks
Techdirt Earlier this year, we noted that a court in Iceland had ordered Visa to start accepting donations to Wikileaks again. There's been some cat and mouse games as the various payment processors, under pressure from US officials, cut off the site a while back. |
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Swedish Pirate Party targets banks over WikiLeaks blockade
RT International payment companies refused to process donations to WikiLeaks in December 2010 after the site published confidential diplomatic cables from US embassies around the world. The Swedish Pirate Party, which holds two seats in the European … |
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Pirate Party reports banks for WikiLeaks blockade
The Local.se Online: http://www.thelocal.se/45130/20121218/. Sweden's Pirate Party has filed a complaint with the country's financial system watchdog alleging Swedish banks have been complicit in a long-running blockade of donations to WikiLeaks. Swedish envoy … |
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Bulgarian Banks Try To Silence Web Site That Called Them 'Bad Apples'
Techdirt Whatever your views on the value of Wikileaks, one of its useful side-effects has been the appearance of a other sites that have tried to do a similar job of calling the powerful to account using leaked information, but at a more local level. One of the most … |







