Iceland's Supreme Court Upholds Wikileaks Ruling, Orders Visa To Process Donations Again
from the iceland-becomes-an-enemy-combatant? dept
You may recall that after US politicians pressured Visa and Mastercard to stop processing donations to Wikileaks, Wikileaks sued in Iceland. Last year, an Icelandic court ordered Visa to start processing donations to Wikileaks again, but Visa appealed. Now, the Icelandic Supreme Court has upheld the original ruling and once again told Valitor (Visa Iceland) to begin processing those donations again. As Wikileaks points out, if it refuses to do so, it will have to pay fines around $200,000 per month. Your move, Visa. Of course, if Visa does start processing donations, how long until diplomatic pressure from the US on Iceland leads to Iceland backing down?Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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If DC wants to pretend they are the political equivalent of the Vatican, and attempt to dictate the agendas of large multinationals to the rest of the world, while increasingly losing the support of it's own people, it's going to find itself a rude awakening some day.
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If only we had more than one wall:
no. of walls required = no. of guns * % of popular opinion against government / no. of revolutions
It's a mathematical certainty.
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Anyone willing to guess who winds up on next years 301 list as a new contender?
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How long
Hopefully long enough such that Wikileaks can recoup its operational costs... and continue practicing the free speech ideals that the U.S. is merely preaching.
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Response to: Anonymous Coward on Apr 26th, 2013 @ 2:47am
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The US is already losing on multiple international fronts (figuratively speaking). If you use your hard power too much your soft power loses efficacy and their best bet would be to maintain a soft power over the world as they did for a good while.
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I am so glad that torrenting is increasing and that the internet is being used to stop the US government in it's tracks. It just shows that, when combined, the world population really can work together, and a huge shout out to Reddit and the world community using it to improve and protest what the governments around the world do.We are one world and one community and the time of governments ruling the world is slowly coming to an end, yes very very slowly at the moment, but it is happening slowly enough that the US and others do not even realise what is happening.
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Every Empire has its Rise, Its Plateau, and its Fall !
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Looks Like Visa Will Have To Leave
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Iceland ordering Visa to process violates that basic right of business. So when someone's rights are trampled, you give them the middle finger. Small wonder why nobody respects you.
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Actually - and ironically - I believe the ultra liberal government that caused Iceland to crash would agree completely that the state should stay out of all business.
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We could start by sending Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz to the Hague for trial of Crimes Against Humanity in perpetrating the Iraq war.
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Stick it to the the Us goverment
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Good show, Iceland!
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