Wikileaks Threatened Bankrupt
Filed Under ( BANKRUPT, NEWS, WIKILEAKS, Wikileaks Bankrupt ) by haro on Tuesday, October 25, 2011
WikileaksThreatened Bankrupt |
The following financial blockade has been running for more than 10 months. Since 2010, the financial intermediary Wikileaks, including Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and Western Union has refused donations to Wikileaks through their system.
Above the blocking action, is rumored to be deprived of revenue Wikileaks to 95% so that Wikileaks now only receives less than $ 10,000 per month. Publishing a number of important documents also experienced delays for a while.
"If Wikileaks did not find a way to remove this blockade, we are not able to continue it until next year," said Assange, founder of Wikileaks.
Wikileaks website became controversial because he leaked important documents belongs to many countries. As a result, governments in some countries made many angry, one of which is the United States who were behind the blockade.
Furthermore, Assange said that they needed $ 3.5 million to keep it 'breathe' during the next 12 months. Although WikiLeaks did not accept donations from the above systems, but they still receive money from the payments the traditional way, such as checks, cash or via transfer companies like MoneyGram International Inc., which has not been blocked.
Assange now rack my brain to keep the site alive. And he began to perform the method of payment through mobile banking and said that transferring money directly from bank to bank can still be done in many countries.