The same they banned Wikileaks.
Strangely, Visa and Mastercard doesn't like anything US government doesn't like.
Strangely enough they just unbanned wikileaks but i think they just want to track donation made to them ...
But yeah,
the source of their stance is not internal! Its seems they are working outside of the whole judge, jury, and court of law thing and they are circumventing it all together !
With wikileaks i think it was Joe Lieberman who without a court order or without any proof of a law being broken ... Just basically called up visa and mastercard and "told" them to stop taking donation via Credit cards on the site.
Initially i think it was paypal who Joe Lieberman called and had paypal ban wikileaks from using the service!
Then paypal obliged without a court order or anything! (Just a mere phone call from Joe Lieberman)
Then wikileaks said well screw payal we will just use visa and mastercard! Well it wasnt too long after giving paypal the middle finger that visa and mastercard got the call!!
& then of course visa and mastercard stopped taking donations for wikileaks!
After that happened ... the hackers came out of the woodworks and started targeting paypal , visa, mastercard!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8188797/WikiLeaks-supporters-hack-Mastercard.com.htmlThen Joe and his gang started targeting the web host of wikileaks ... (AMAZON CLOUD SERVICES)
after a call from joe and his gang, amazon caved in and shutdown wikileaks.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/01/wikileaks-website-cables-servers-amazonThen
the mirrors happened after that !! A boat load of wikileaks clones showed up! Meaning .. Wikileaks was being mirrored by thousands of supporters who witnessed paypal, visa, mastercard, amazon and others who without court orders or anything "official" and documented were discriminating against the whistle blowing giant.
At the time i imagine satoshi coding with a grin as he watched what seemed to be a script out of the movies!
Fast forward a few years and here we are ... right smack in the middle of another whistle blowing scandal !!! One that may change the face of communications as we know it!
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