According to Julian Assange, places blocking donation to Wikileaks are going to drive them out of business. Wikileak said that they will have to stop publishing temporarily to focus on revenue. It was something that is not surprising.
Both in the US and in Europe, credit cards have not allowed donations and so hosting website DataCell allowed people to directly donate through banks. The blockade, on a perfectly legal website is going to drive it out of business. With Assange's need for a lawyer for both his book deal and his possible sexual assault charge there's no money.
More so, these companies are shutting donations off to a person who can make or break them. Meanwhile, you can use your credit card in any country to donate to every racist and hate group in the world, but a group that exposes government secrets is considered more dangerous.
It's frustrating for the government to act like this information is somehow going to destroy the lives of every American. That some how the walls of America will be broken down by the release of papers that aren't totally, 100% secret. The government should be scared of Assange, but shutting him down will just make others step up to take over what journalism should be about
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