WikiLeaks and Money

Comments on Love, money and independent media published on ABC Australia The Drum.

The free online encyclopedia Wikipedia seems to be doing okay from donations. One of those is a rather generous donor (Google) but a large number are just ordinary people wishing to support a good cause that they benefit from.

The quality of writing on Wikipedia doesn't seem to be as low-brow as you fear. Crowd sourcing with some editing does the trick. And besides, WikiLeaks publishes material written by others. In recent days, material written by American embassy employees, and not just the nursing staff and cooks.

The DoS attacks on Visa and MasterCard (not by WikiLeaks) are not helpful. What's more to the point is the democratically chilling attacks on WikiLeaks by cutting off access to Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, Amazon web hosting, and the wikileaks.org URL.

Mainstream media outlets could return the favour of substantial original leaks by donating directing to WikiLeaks. Perhaps not via Visa or MasterCard. There must be other ways.