Wikileaks is facing pressure and accusations of illegal behavior from a number of directions due to the data it has been leaking, but things got more serious when the site’s revenue streams started getting cut off. MasterCard and PayPal both froze the accounts of Wikileaks with no solid legal reasons given.
Osama Bedier, VP of Platform at PayPal, then took to the stage at Le Web’10, and the first question he got asked by freelance journalist Milo Yiannopoulos was why PayPal cut off Wikileaks?
Full Story: Why did PayPal ditch WikiLeaks? The State Department asked it to. – CSMonitor.com