Last Straw

No Right Turn on the risk to demo­cracy that Paypal presents:

Paypal has blocked dona­tions to the Arrest Blair cam­paign, sup­posedly on the basis that it “encour­ages illegal activ­ity” (con­duct­ing a law­ful cit­izens arrest of a rich and power­ful fig­ure appar­ently being illegal in the eyes of PayPal). It’s a blatantly polit­ical move — and its not the first time they’ve done it. Last week, they froze the assets of Wikileaks — a site which encour­ages and pub­lishes anonym­ous leaks in the pub­lic interest, and is cred­ited with “produc[ing] more scoops in its short life than the Wash­ing­ton Post has in the past 30 years”.