Mark's Blog

I don’t want to discuss the wikileaks articles or the ethics of releasing so much information that has been poorly redacted. What disturbs me is that we have an organisation that has never supported violence in any way shape or form, infact it works to uncover violence being labelled a “terrorist organisation”. Now I think some people need to look in the dictionary nobody associated with wikileaks can be described as a terrorist. To even try and paint wikileaks members as terrorists or the organisation itself a terrorist organisation does a huge disservice to all those hurt and killed by terrorist atrocities and there families. Ultimately you could possibly call the organisation an enemy of the US, again I think that label is inaccurate it is only releasing information that it is given, and it doesnt target the US government specifically. But I am starting to go offtopic so back to what was my primary concern about this whole saga….

I am very concerned about wikileaks being dropped by various ISPs based on an accusation of illicit activities. Wikileaks and nobody who is part of wikileaks has as of yet been accused of a crime never mind charged or convicted. This goes against the whole basis of modern legal systems which is innocent until proven guilty, and if the US legal system is based on this principle then the actions of the US government would be prejudicial to this principle. What I find most chilling of all is that two companies can effectively block any card transaction to support wikileaks. This covers every country in the world. This to me is very worrying and maybe its time for Europe to look into setting up its own card transaction bureau as we are totally reliant on US companies which could be forced by the government to block individuals or companies processing card transactions.