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Becker
11-03-2011, 11:38 PM
1. A long way to go for free speech
2. There's more than enough people, public and private, who are able and willing to make some voices hard to hear
3. Most of them are America companies
4. Speech and exposing secrets takes money, and isn't a right
5. There's a lot you can't do without money
6. There's actually nothing stopping lawyers, security companies, rebel military, IT technicians, politicians, whatever they need money to pay for, from volunteering and donating their services, there just happens to be none who are willing.
7. There is no law protecting Wikileaks's assets from being seized or stolen from them (and if there is, nobody has been forced to enforce it)
8. What free market? (either there is one in this world, or there isn't, if there is, do you call it working?)

read more
http://wikileaks.ch/Banking-Blockade.html

fair warning : your donations may not make it to their hands.

Warrior_of_Freedom
11-03-2011, 11:45 PM
Don't give money through a bank.

Rael
11-03-2011, 11:51 PM
Can't people just send cash or money orders?

Becker
11-03-2011, 11:53 PM
Can't people just send cash or money orders?

yes, assuming mail isn't intercepted and lost.