Remember that suit Wikileaks’ hosting company, DataCell was about to file? Today was the day they were planning to do so. And surprise surprise, Visa and MasterCard have suddenly decided to start processing payments from DataCell again. Late last week, WikiLeaks and DataCell gave me a copy of a legal complaint the group had planned [...]
Credit Card Companies Forestall Legal Trouble by Allowing Donations via DataCell |
| By: emptywheel Thursday July 7, 2011 11:36 am |
The WikiLeaks Suit against Visa and MasterCard |
| By: emptywheel Sunday July 3, 2011 7:07 am |
You may have heard that WikiLeaks is suing Visa and MasterCard for refusing to process donations to it. That’s not actually the case. Forbes has gotten a copy of the complaint, and as it lays out, an Icelandic company called DataCell is suing, and it’s suing in Europe, not the US. DataCell is basically a [...]


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