“December 3rd, 2010 may very well go down as a turning point in the history of human governance. On that day, PayPal decided to permanently block Wikileaks’ ability to receive donations for its investigative journalism project, rooted in the judicious sourcing and publication of leaked government and industry documents. With this decision, the globe-spanning cash management service abandoned any pretense that it did, could, or would operate free of the dictates of the US-led international “security” consensus.”
What It Means to Experience “Social Death” ⋆ Brownstone Institute