WikiLeaks will fund itself via Flattr

Hey thanks, flattr seems to be pretty much the content micropayment system I have been wishing for (being one of those people who actually want to give money for content I love).

I'm very interested but honestly, based on how much WikiLeaks is ticking off the U.S. Govt, how long until one of their donors is convicted of supporting a terrorist organization?

I mean, they just convicted a guy in New York for letting an alleged terrorist store socks and ponchos in his apartment.

No idea, but Julian Assange's talk at TED did mention sending people to Baghdad to gather details for "Collateral Murder". That doesn't come for free.

Assange is "living in airports these days" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange - frequent flying isn't a cheap lifestyle.

What, were you expecting Tech Crunch to check facts beyond a trip to Wikipedia? Actually seems like they can't even handle that a lot of the time. So, I guess WL is based in Iceland now or something, but I guarantee very few people actually care.

If I recall, Wikileaks does work Swedish jurisdiction (where it is illegal to reveal a source in some circumstances) into their submission chain somehow. Or is it The Netherlands I am thinking of?

The primary servers are in Sweden because of the favorable free speech climate -> higher barriers to take down notices. The video editing was done in Iceland a few months ago. Julian Assange is Australian. There are people from pretty much everywhere working on the project.

WikiLeaks is a trans-national organization, trying to fit things like it into a construct where it has a nationality is obsolete.