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Cash-Strapped WikiLeaks To Shut Down
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has said the suspension is because of an “arbitrary and unlawful financial blockade” placed on Bank of America, Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and Western Union last December.
WikiLeaks no longer has money to operate and may shut down by December if cash donations does not come in soon, its founder Julian Assange announced in a press conference in London on Monday
Assange said he is trying to raise $3.3 million to continue the whistleblowing website, which has temporarily stopped publishing exposes. He blamed the money woes to the financial blockade imposed by Amazon, Bank of America, Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and Western Union.
The said companies refused to process donations for WikiLeaks in December after it published classified information about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, corporate malfeasance and thousands of sensitive U.S. State Department diplomatic cables, some of which bore unsavory remarks on heads and officials of governments. As a result, funding was cut off.M
