Twitter Suspends Account Organizing Support for WikiLeaks

Turns out two can play that game.

The Twitter account of the hacker group Anonymous' 'Operation Payback' appears to have been blocked. The pro-WikiLeaks group has been linked to payback takedowns against companies that have suspended access to fund-raising for WikiLeaks--including MasterCard and Visa.

Twitter declined comment.

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Earlier, the group hit MasterCard's website with a distributed denial-of-service attack and took down PayPal over the weekend. The MasterCard site was back up this afternoon.

"IT'S DOWN! KEEP FIRING!!!" the group tweeted on its Operation Payback campaign page.

On Wednesday, Visa suffered intermittent downtime, one day after preventing people from making payments to WikiLeaks.

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Operation Payback also said its page had been banned from Facebook for violating terms of use.

(This report included reporting by CNET's Elinor Mills)

[KeithDrippingSprings]

It is good to see the mighty fall. Even though the Master card system does not own the banks that put out their cards, they are complicit in the crime of usury.

When I was in trouble with my credit cards, I approached all the companies and ask for my interest rate to be changed to something I could afford, none of them would do it, so I got an attorney and walked on the whole amount. They would rather have nothing instead of getting paid so that is what I gave them, nothing.

So finally, real democracy is in action on the internet. I think it will be a refreshing time when we can expect people to tell us the truth again.

[iamandami]

After all what's the point of freedom and responsibility and opportunity if you are denied such things only to have the world figured out and sold to you in convenient episodes that so often serve to conveniently serve the indoctrinated/vested power bases and their infomercial packages?

After all is it really all about freedom as Mastercard so often boasts in its commercials? I wonder...

Shame about Visa too...

http://scallywagandvagabond.com/2010/12/media-transparency-mastercard-and-payback/