{"id":184168,"date":"2012-07-15T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/07\/15\/the-good-guys-beat-the-borg-for-once\/"},"modified":"2012-07-15T17:17:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T22:17:00","slug":"the-good-guys-beat-the-borg-for-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/07\/15\/the-good-guys-beat-the-borg-for-once\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good Guys Beat the Borg (For Once)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Specifically, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/wikileaks-visa-court-case-040\/\">Wikileaks has won a case against Visa for cutting off their credit card donations<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Reykjav\u00edk District Court has ruled that Valitor, formerly known as VISA Iceland, violated contract laws by blocking credit card donations to Wikileaks, according to a press release posted on the whistleblowers&#8217; Twitter account.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The court also ordered that the donation gateway should be reopened within 14 days otherwise Valitor will be forced to pay a fine of  $6,200 daily. Valitor CEO Vidar Thorkellsson told Bloomberg, however, that the company would appeal the ruling. He declined to comment further.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said &#8220;This is a significant victory against Washington&#8217;s attempt to silence WikiLeaks. We will not be silenced. Economic censorship is censorship. It is wrong. When it&#8217;s done outside of the rule of law its doubly wrong. One by one those involved in the attempted censorship of WikiLeaks will find themselves on the wrong side of history.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Specifically, Wikileaks has won a case against Visa for cutting off their credit card donations: The Reykjav\u00edk District Court has ruled that Valitor, formerly known as VISA Iceland, violated contract laws by blocking credit card donations to Wikileaks, according to a press release posted on the whistleblowers&#8217; Twitter account.The court also ordered that the donation &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,970,1004,972,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-corruption","category-finance","category-justice","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}