Anonymous declares war on WikiLeaks in retaliation for "paywall"

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Overlay prevents access to leaked data unless you tweet, share, pay, or wait.

The WikiLeaks donation overlay.

Anonymous, the loose collective of hackers, dissidents, and the disaffected, roared into action in late 2010 to defend WikiLeaks, conducting denial-of-service attacks against MasterCard, Visa, and PayPal in retaliation for the payment processors' decision to block funding of the secret-publishing site. That support appears now to be at an end, with the hacking group outraged that WikiLeaks has placed its data behind a paywall.

WikiLeaks first implemented its paywall on October 10th. Most pages on the site were overlaid with a video and a banner imploring readers to "Vote WikiLeaks" and donate money to the site. Donating, sharing the video on Facebook, or tweeting about the campaign, would dismiss the overlay and allow access to the site. The overlay also disappears automatically after a period of time. After an immediate backlash on Twitter the overlay appeared to be removed within hours of its first appearance, but it returned on the 11th.

The reappearance of the overlay provoked an angry response from Anonymous representatives. The group claims to have been betrayed by WikiLeaks. The group's statement argues that numerous Anons have been charged or arrested over activities supportive of WikiLeaks, and that in contrast, no member of WikiLeaks staff has been charged or imprisoned.

Those charged include 14 Anonymous members who were indicted for the denial-of-service attacks of December 2010, and Jeremy Hammond, who provided WikiLeaks with e-mail pillaged from private intelligence company Stratfor. Those e-mails are now behind the WikiLeaks paywall, a move that "dishonors" and "insults" Anonymous. Anons "risk lengthy prison sentences" in their defense of WikiLeaks, but in return, WikiLeaks is "prostituting" the data that they have provided.

Concluding, the statement says that in the future the group will cease putting itself at risk to defend WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, and instead publish information through its own network of leak sites.

Justifying the call for donations, Assange wrote that the fund-raising was necessary to fund its "publishing and infrastructure costs," and further to fund its legal action against the payment processors. WikiLeaks' Twitter account also said that an overlay that allows you to share, tweet, or wait—or pay—isn't a paywall anyway.

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[DKT27]

WikiLeaks' Twitter account also said that an overlay that allows you to share, tweet, or wait—or pay—isn't a paywall anyway.

This is the most important part that people seem to not notice.

Anyway, this had to happen. US. limiting it's payment options. It should be also noted that Wikileaks is non-profit thing.

[myidisbb]

i do agree that paypal and credit card companies shouldnt had block payments.

now my opinion on their leader or is it ex leader?

nothing non profit about them. the freak that is up on multi rape charges no doubt uses the funds for his on pleasure. good riddance.

if it was a truely non profit they would had went after the communist too. not one on it. the guy it anti western. he gets what he d

[DKT27]

nothing non profit about them. the freak that is up on multi rape charges no doubt uses the funds for his on pleasure. good riddance.

if it was a truely non profit they would had went after the communist too. not one on it. the guy it anti western. he gets what he d

Those rape things? The girls are heavily paid by US. Govt. for that charges. Second, the so called rape was condom breaking during sex, which is only called rape in one single country in the world. Third, those two girls' twitter accounts' were openly showing how they planned this together, for taking a revenge for him leaving them. This is not me saying it, sites like Arstech, who's editors broke all the frontiers to bring us the correct info, does.

If you look at all the documents released so far, he hasn't left anyone alone, he has not only exposed US, he has exposed Mexico, India, Pakistan, Middle East, etc. almost all the major countries in the world. Wikileaks has thousands of workers, their website has to face regular attacks, he has to pay his attorneys, he wouldn't be making a dollar for his pleasures, forget about making a living of it.

[myidisbb]

not one communist country. he is an elitist socialism communism. he needs to go to count and get the rape charges over. maybe if he was smart he get someone to release barrys actually birth cert , cert of live birth long and short forms. :P

[jtmulc]

not one communist country. he is an elitist socialism communism. he needs to go to count and get the rape charges over. maybe if he was smart he get someone to release barrys actually birth cert , cert of live birth long and short forms. :P

Pop quiz: Can you name 10 communist countries? I'll spot you China, North Korea, Cuba, and Vietnam.

[DKT27]

Wikileaks has also released infos about China, North Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, etc. Just because media doesn't show them doesn't mean they don't have or release them. ;)

This is why whole world is after him, world is filled by corrupt bastards, one man, exposing them and tearing down their cloths, is considered immoral by them.

[myidisbb]

latest agree to disagree. but i do agree with you on the paypal and credit card blocking was wrong and abuse of power by the US government. thats why we got to get rid of barry and eric holder. bush never did this kind of abuse