Add Paypal to the list

Post #336,696 by scoenye 12/4/10 11:40:44 AM Reply	Add Paypal to the list Not that they shouldn't have already been boycotted for being plain shifty operators, but they have frozen Wikileak's account(s) now.
Post #336,697 by beepster 12/4/10 12:09:13 PM Reply	The assumption you make is that I agree with the way wikileaks operates. Which I don't. If you think that every single communication of every single human being in every organization setting should have zero expectation of privacy...go ahead and boycott. I don't have that expectation...nor do I think its a "good thing" Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But...there they are.
Post #336,708 by scoenye 12/4/10 4:33:34 PM Reply	Except when you are lord of the jungle of course
Post #336,712 by beepster 12/4/10 6:07:33 PM Reply	Its no different than the crackers who published credit card numbers...except for the fact that you don't like the folks he's publishing... as long as it isn't you and yours...its great. Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But...there they are.
Post #336,814 by jake123 12/6/10 6:59:12 PM Reply	As has been observed elsewhere given that the state seems to think it's got complete rights to rummage through my communications, I'm not feeling all verklempt when the tables are turned. It might be different if the controls on the behaviour of the Powers That Be were functioning, but that's clearly not been the case for at least a decade.
Post #336,819 by beepster 12/6/10 7:40:37 PM Reply	I don't like it either way... and given that his "friends" now plan to attack commercial sites they feel are "complicit"...like PayPal...what happens if they decide to steal their money back...or crack the security so that people "lose faith"...and that just happens to compromise the personal records of a few million "guilty consumers" (by association, of course..as no self respecting member of "anonymous" would have a paypal account, natch). Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But...there they are.
Post #336,823 by jake123 12/6/10 8:45:04 PM Reply	From what I know about Anonymous you couldn't really call them his friends; don't think you could say that Anonymous really has any friends. Personally, though, if PayPal and eBay end up taking a serious shitkicking, I'm not crying any tears for them either. Are they (and Amazon) going to stop doing business with the NYT? They published (some of) the cables as well. The hypocrisy is astounding and revealing.

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