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Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: WikiLeaks and the evil that is PayPal
Rundle's ruminations: The humble credit card is now a political tool
WikiLeaks has been so dependent on the business model built up during the commercialisation of the web — that all one needs to do is get people people to hit the “confirm payment” button — that the withdrawal of such became a political tool.
Crikey Says: The slow financial strangulation of WikiLeaks
The slow financial strangulation of WikiLeaks by the major credit card institutions Mastercard, Visa and online payment giant PayPal, has certainly harmed the whistleblower organisation’s capacity to embarrass the world’s governments.
Virtual (economic) reality: Microsoft Points to future
Microsoft has become the first technology firm to weigh into the debate on innovation in the Australian payments system, calling for the payments infrastructure to be modified to facilitate virtual currencies, writes Technology Spectator’s Charis Palmer.
Dispatches from the information wars: online activism on the move
Online activism continues to evolve and change tactics, partly under pressure from governments. It also continues to evolve rapidly, as events over the last week have demonstrated.
In IT’s dance of the inflating elephants, Microsoft is stumbling
With moves like Google’s launch of their own social network Google+, the corporate elephants are now engaged in a highly-competitive dance around a massive pot of gold.
Funding illegal Israeli settlements?
Priceless.
Visa, Mastercard and PayPal have all blacklisted Wikileaks, but they enable donations to West Bank settlements that breach both international and in some cases Israeli law - and worse.
eBay Australia: Who? Us? Anti-competitive?
The public, competitiors, and the online auction industry have had their say on eBay’s plans to use PayPal exclusively. And - shock! - there are significant fears of eBay bullying, writes Stilgherrian.
eBay faces wrath, ACCC investigation over PayPal move
eBay Australia isn’t making friends by requiring its sellers to use eBay-owned PayPal to receive their money, writes Stilgherrian
eBay to customers: we’ll handle your money, it’s for your “protection”
As eBay sticks its hand in the pockets of sellers, questions need to be asked about how to regulate the global online auction giant, writes Stilgherrian.
Prettier Facebook giving rival MySpace a shake
While the mainstream media has well and truly caught onto to the success of the MySpace website, the leading social networking site is in danger of losing its crown, with Facebook, its prettier, more functional competitor rapidly gaining market share.
