Alternative donations to Wikileaks via Flattr + Operation Payback video
Via Forbes:
“Peter Sunde, the co-founder of torrent site Pirate Bay and fellow champion of free information recently reminded his Twitter followers that they could still donate money to WikiLeaks through his micro-donation site, known as Flattr.
How it works: users put a minimum of 2 euros into a Flattr account each month and can divide that up between content providers who also have an account and put the Flattr button next to their content. Flattr, which was launched in August and is based (rather ironically) in Sweden, takes 10% of all donations received via PayPal or Moneybookers. (Read more about it via A Pirate Comes Clean and Do You Flattr?)
WikiLeaks has been on Flattr since August, and to date has received 2,443 Flattr donations for its Afghanistan War Diary. It has not added a Flattr button for its #cablegate pages yet, but if it did rest assured the donations would probably be just as big. A spokesperson for Flattr says there was a spike in Flattr traffic when WikiLeaks’ Afghan War Diaries first came online and again when it put a Flattr button on its own pages.
So how does Flattr now get WikiLeaks its donations when PayPal (a significant source of revenue for the whistleblower site) has nixed payments to its account? Flattr tells me that as long as it can verify an account holder’s identity to comply with anti-money laundering and KYC (know your customer) requirements, it can send over a users’ Flattr funds via bank transfer or check. It could not confirm that it is doing this for WikiLeaks as per client confidentiality (some secrets must remain secret after all).”
Here is also a video from Operation Payback of the Anonymous group:
Here is the text:
“Corrupt governments of the world, we are anonymous. For some time now, voices have been crying out in unison against the new ACTA laws. The gross inadequacies of the new laws being passed internationally have been pointed out repeatedly. Our chief complaint is that such measures would restrict people’s access to the internet.
In these modern times access to the internet is fast becoming a basic human right. Just like any other basic human right, we believe that it is wrong to infringe upon it. To threaten to cut people off from the global consciousness as you have is criminal and abhorrent. To move to censor content on the internet based on your own prejudice is at best laughably impossible, at worst, morally reprehensible.
The unjust restrictions you impose on us will meet with disaster and only strengthen our resolve to disobey and rebel against your tyranny. Such actions taken against you, and those you out source your malignant litigation too, are inevitable, unavoidable and unstoppable.
We Are Anonymous,
We Are Legion And Divided By Zero.
We Do Not Forgive Internet Censorship
And We Do Not Forget Free Speech.
We Are Over 9000,
Expect Us!”
