Samizdata - 5:37 pm on Dec 8, 2010 (gmt 0)

Additional recent factors that should be mentioned include:

* PayPal has frozen WikiLeaks' account

* Mastercard has banned payments to WikiLeaks

* Visa has banned payments to WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks, of course, survives on donations from the public.

The primary WikiLeaks domain (wikileaks.org) is still not resolving and the massive DDoS attack by persons unknown continues. For now, at least, the site can still be reached with a Google search.

WikiLeaks, as far as I am aware, is not a proscribed organisation in the USA and has broken no US laws - or if it has there have so far been no charges, either against WikiLeaks or the New York Times and others (which are publishing the same material).

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