Daniel Ellsberg And Free Speech Advocates Create Fund To Stop WikiLeaks-Style Payment Blockades

When Visa, Mastercard, Paypal and others abruptly cut off all payments to the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks last year, they offered a lesson in how financial giants can use their purse strings to choke controversial media. Now Daniel Ellsberg and a group of digital liberties advocates hope to prevent that kind of financial blockade on information from ever occurring again.

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