The walls continue to crumble around the controversial WikiLeaks website.
PayPal has just suspended the account the site uses to collect donations from its contributors.
It appears the company was encouraged to do so by the government as a tweet posted by WikiLeaks reads, “PayPal bans WikiLeaks after US government pressure.”
PayPal issued its own statement on the company’s official website:
“PayPal has permanently restricted the account used by WikiLeaks due to a violation of the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy, which states that our payment service cannot be used for any activities that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity. We’ve notified the account holder of this action.”
PayPal is one of several means WikiLeaks uses to organize donations from its readers.
The site published more classified documents last week, leading to calls from some government officials to have WikiLeaks classified as a terrorist organization. The site also had to change to a Swiss domain name after its DNS provider dropped the company. It was also forced to switch web hosts when Amazon booted the controversial site from its cloud-based hosting service.
Adding to the chaos, Interpol issued an arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange last week on sexual assault-related charges.
Related articles
- PayPal Freezes WikiLeaks Account (wired.com)
- PayPal freezes WikiLeaks account (guardian.co.uk)
- PayPal cuts WikiLeaks from money flow – Washington Post (news.google.com)
- PayPal Suspends WikiLeaks Account (thelede.blogs.nytimes.com)
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