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>>>redirected to PayPal

Which allowed you to buy it -- for now. See, there's a weak link in that chain. Just two weeks ago there was a huge uproar over PayPal rejecting payments for books they unilaterally and unjustifiably deemed "offensive."

And they can do that to any comedian too.

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So can any payment processor, direct or third party. Right up to the top, with Visa and MasterCard declining to process for Wikileaks. Your point?

Wikileaks is not content. That's more political than anything else, with the Patriot Act used to threaten the processors.

Sounds like a good idea, lets stop all transactions going to any organization that might have political goals.

i think the point is that paypal is much more likely to cut you off (or even run away with your money) than visa or mastercard is.

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