Reply #10: First, Paypal looks for any excuse to take people's money.

[caseymoz]

They are terrible in the way they freeze and seize people's funds at the least, absurd suspicion of anything illegal. That's how they really make their money. They never say, "We don't to have anything to do with what you're doing, here's your money back." No, they just freeze it and take it, and you have to fight them over the phone for months to get it back.

Second, it has now been practically proved that commerce doesn't have anything to do with freedom. If there's anything the corrupt, oppressive capitalist regimes in Russia and China and the corruption and growing oppressiveness of our own has shown us, freedom of commerce has nothing to do with liberty, rights or any other freedom.

Third, these sites are blocking commerce simply to fight free speech, and without a legal warrant to do so. So, they're using the power given them from "free commerce" to block a right formally guaranteed in our Constitution. Their actions are totalitarianist by their very nature.

WikiLeaks' free speech might have consequences, but Paypal's, Amazon's, Mastercard and Visa's actions have consequence too. They've put themselves in the middle of a political fight.