WikiLeaks Wins Battle Against Visa, MasterCard (in Iceland)

[MattSh]

I'm thinking Iceland's one of my favorite places right now.

WikiLeaks won an important legal battle against Visa and MasterCard in Iceland on Thursday — where the credit card companies’ local partner was ordered by a judge to resume processing credit card donations made to the controversial secret-sharing site.

The Icelandic court ruled that Valitor, Visa and MasterCard’s local partner, ran afoul of contract laws when it stopped processing donations to WikiLeaks, according to the Associated Press.

Visa and MasterCard, along with other U.S.-based financial firms such as PayPal, blocked transactions headed for WikiLeaks in 2010 after the website published more than 250,000 American classified diplomatic cables.

http://mashable.com/2012/07/12/wikileaks-wins-battle-against-visa-mastercard/

[OverseaVisitor]

1. Yeah Iceland

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. So does that mean anyone can donate to Wikileaks in Icelandic krónur

no matter where they are in the world?

[harmonicon]

3. This is just a guess...

but I would imagine that the currency is irrelevant, but where the money is processed is what matters.