Title: 2012-08-24 gigaom.com - Why WikiLeaks is worth defending, despite all of its fla Post by: julz on August 25, 2012, 12:05:07 PM Just one mention of Bitcoin - including a link to the Jon Matonis article: WikiLeaks Bypasses Financial Blockade With Bitcoin (http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/08/20/wikileaks-bypasses-financial-blockade-with-bitcoin/) at Forbes.
Quote Why WikiLeaks is worth defending, despite all of its flaws Mathew Ingram 2012-08-24 http://gigaom.com/2012/08/24/why-wikileaks-is-worth-defending-despite-all-of-its-flaws/ ... There has been little or no coverage — at least from the mainstream media — about the effects of the ongoing financial blockade of WikiLeaks that was instituted last year by PayPal and Visa and MasterCard (which the organization is trying to get around by usingthe peer-to-peer money system known as Bitcoin (http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/08/20/wikileaks-bypasses-financial-blockade-with-bitcoin/)) or who might be behind the recent denial-of-service attacks on WikiLeaks that seem to have been orchestrated by U.S.-based sources. ... |