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> I am a normal citizen and I want to donate money to WikiLeaks without the banks colluding to stop my financial transaction, even though nobody has been convic
by doctorpangloss 8y ago
> I am a normal citizen and I want to donate money to WikiLeaks without the banks colluding to stop my financial transaction, even though nobody has been convicted of a crime.
Time will tell if Wikileaks was really a noble cause, or if the banks were right all along.
- stale2002 8y agoIt is now 8 years later, and yet the organization has not been convicted of any crimes. Time already did tell who was right and who was wrong. But even IF they are convicted of a crime sometime in the future, this is 8 years later. Censoring financial transactions should require a court order. Signed by a judge, and done through the normal criminal justice system. And it should be done publicly, so that judges and politicians are held accountable for their actions. In America, due process is a constitutional right, and if someone is guilty of a crime, there is a process that we should be going through. Punishment should not be inflicted upon others outside the court system via secret agreements and collusion between oligopolies. We have laws and human rights for a reason. Don't be so quick to throw them away.
- jancsika 8y agoLet's go to slide #2 then-- Scihub. They take Bitcoin which they ostensibly use to pay for the servers that serve up the science journals. Do we need time to tell if Scihub is a noble cause?
- sadamznintern 8y agoYes I’m sure they’ll accept rubles