2012-08-24 gigaom.com - Why WikiLeaks is worth defending, despite all of its fla

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Just one mention of Bitcoin - including a link to the Jon Matonis article: WikiLeaks Bypasses Financial Blockade With Bitcoin at Forbes.

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/

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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 ) or who might be behind the recent denial-of-service attacks on WikiLeaks that seem to have been orchestrated by U.S.-based sources.
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