MasterCard lifts Wikileaks donation block

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Submission + - MasterCard lifts Wikileaks donation block (reuters.com)

Submitted by identity0 on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @09:43PM

identity0 writes: Reuters and Russia Today are reporting that MasterCard has unblocked donations to Wikileaks, according to a press release. Their Icelandic data center won a lawsuit against the local credit card processor VALITOR, and their MasterCard account has been activated. Wikileaks says Julian Assange's legal defense is paid from a separate fund. Donations to Wikileaks went down 95 percent after the major credit card companies blocked their account in 2010. Their PayPal account is still frozen.

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