Re: Clay Shirky's nuanced position on Wikileaks

Lance McLain <lance-X3DuywwxauBWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
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FYI, Paypal has admitted that the State Department put pressure on  
them to freeze the accounts by telling them that wikileaks was illegal.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/08/paypal-wikileaks/

regards,
-Lance

On Dec 10, 2010, at 4:08 PM, [email protected] wrote:

> >it will probably be revealed in a wikileak cable in about 3-4 years.
> Ha!
> >I have no proof...but tell me what organizations around the world  
> have influence to get the Swiss, Sweden, Amazon, Mastercard, Paypal  
> and >Interpol to act against the same person in coordination?
>
>
> Maybe all those organizations?  Wikileaks is not a "threat" solely  
> to the U.S.  It is a danger to almst anyone.  When Wikileaks starts  
> leaking stuff about private citizens?  I suspect the tide will  
> change.  And it will happen.  Wikileaks is like the Reporter in Die  
> Hard  (and Die Hard 2) played by William Atherton.
>
>
> Thom
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