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November 28, 2012

WikiLeaks Founder Assange Decries U.S. Politicians for Role in Funding Block 
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Wiki Leaks founder Julian Assange has spoken out against U.S.
politicians he says have harmed the whistleblowing website by
influencing credit card companies to block donations. Speaking to
reporters in Brussels via Internet Tuesday from his refuge at the
Ecuadorean embassy in London, Assange said the action by credit card
companies had blocked 95 percent of the site's donations from Europe,
potentially costing it tens of millions of dollars and reducing the
number of documents it has been able to post. Assange's comments came
after the European Commission said the blockade did not violate
anti-trust rules. In his remarks Assange vowed Wiki Leaks would
continue.

Julian Assange: "The strength of popular and private support means that
we continue. There is no danger that Wiki Leaks will cease to exist as
an organization. Rather its natural and rightful growth has been
compromised and that is wrong, and must change. It is not only wrong for
Wiki Leaks. It sets an extremely bad precedent for all other European
organizations and all media organizations worldwide that monopolies can
simply exercise financial death penalties over organizations and
companies as a result of political controversy."

 

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