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PayPal suspends donations to WikiLeaks | PayPal, the online payments service, has blocked donations
to WikiLeaks and to a German foundation that raises funds for it following the release of 250,000 confidential US government cables. A statement on
thepaypalblog.com
dated Friday said PayPal had permanently closed the donations account because
terms of service had been breached, adding that PayPal did not allow its service
to be used for 'illegal activities'. According to the Daily Mail, the move by
PayPal, a subsidiary of U.S. based online marketplace operator EBay Inc., came
as another blow to the organisation that has embarrassed Washington and foreign
leaders by releasing the secret cables. WikiLeaks had become an Internet vagabond,
forced to move from one website to another as governments and hackers hounded
the organisation, trying to deprive it of a direct line to the public, the paper
said. Meanwhile, the web hosting company OVH has confirmed that it had been hosting
WikiLeaks since early Thursday, after a client asked for a 'dedicated server with...
protection against attacks', adding it was now up to the courts to decide on the
legality of hosting the site on French soil. WikiLeaks chief is likely to be arrested
by British authorities and extradite him to Sweden over allegations of rape and
sexual molestation. Assange has been denying rape charges against him, and added
at this point in time, he missed his country ''a great deal''. However Assange
warned that he had sent the politically sensitive US diplomatic cables obtained
by WikiLeaks to 100,000 people and they would be released if the website was brought
down. He further stated that the cables had been copied in encrypted form and
would be automatically published online if ''something happens to us''.
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