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Mastercard drops financial blockade of Wikileaks

Visa and PayPal are still blocking payments, but this seems like reasonably big
news
. What matters isn’t just whether or not Wikileaks supporters can donate to Wikileaks, but the precedent such a blockade creates: can the US compel financial service providers to deny service when the recipient is a pro-transparency entity they don’t like? (thanks, Micah Lee)

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