WikiLeaks Wins Case Against Visa: Ordered to pay '$204k Per Month if Blockade not Lifted'

[Lucille]

Great news!

WikiLeaks Wins Case Against Visa: Ordered to pay '$204k Per Month if Blockade not Lifted'
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34729.htm

April 24, 2013 "Information Clearing House" - Iceland's Supreme Court has ruled that Valitor (formerly Visa Iceland) must pay WikiLeaks $204,900 per month or $2,494,604 per year in fines if it continues to blockade the whistle-blowing site.

The court upheld the decision that Valitor had unlawfully terminated its contract with WikiLeaks' donation processor, DataCell.

"Today's decision marked the most important victory to date against the unlawful and arbitrary economic blockade erected by US companies against WikiLeaks," the organization's press release stated.

http://rt.com/news/wikileaks-visa-iceland-valitor-346/

h/t http://wendymcelroy.com/news.php?extend.5342

 

[tasteless]

Hahaha, take that Visa! Grats wikileaks

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

BUMP against crony FASCISM in AMERICA

 

[jmdrake]

Oh snap! And folks, this is the answer to the question "What will happen if the U.S. government clamps down on Bitcoins." Some other government won't.

 

[economics102]

I wonder why they were not ordered to pay any damages for past incursions. Any legal experts here?

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

I wonder why they were not ordered to pay any damages for past incursions. Any legal experts here?

Yeah there has to be a huge civil case against VISA somewhere in there over the past few years.

Probably want Assange to show up in person at US court to file the papers, lol.

 

[pmbug]

...
Last November, the European Parliament passed a resolution which included a clause drafted specifically in relation to the economic blockade against WikiLeaks. The resolution called on the European Commission to draft regulations which would prevent online payment facilitators from arbitrarily denying services to companies or organizations, such as WikiLeaks.

The whistle-blowing site says it has launched a formal complaint to the European Commission on the basis that Visa and MasterCard have unlawfully abused their dominant market position. The two credit card companies currently take up 95 per cent of the European market. It remains unclear whether the Commission will open a formal investigation.

VISA better get ready for some blowback. Is there anything Europeans hate more than monopolies? This isn't the kind of attention that VISA is looking for.

 

[angelatc]

Nice!

Guessing we're about to find Al Qaeda cells in Iceland though.

 

[dillo]

Time To Send Iceland Some Freedom

 

[Zippyjuan]

BUMP against crony FASCISM in AMERICA

It was actually Iceland, not the US.

April 24, 2013 "Information Clearing House" - Iceland's Supreme Court has ruled that Valitor (formerly Visa Iceland) must pay WikiLeaks $204,900 per month or $2,494,604 per year in fines if it continues to blockade the whistle-blowing site.

 

[Lucille]

It was actually Iceland, not the US.

"It was actually Iceland" what, Zippy? Are you saying that the American Empire and their American banksters have nothing to do with the blockade?