> Paypal has figured out that Wikileaks isn't illegal - based on all the calls by lawmakers to ban it Congress-critters fighting over a microphone are not a us

> Paypal has figured out that Wikileaks isn't illegal - based on all the calls by lawmakers to ban it Congress-critters fighting over a microphone are not a useful source of information about the state of the law. It's actually fairly common for congress critters to say "this shows that we need a law" when there already is such a law. In some cases, they then use the current incident to pass a completly different law.