Wikileaks has announced that the MasterCard and Visa will sue. According to the klokkenluiderssite block the two American credit card companies on unlawful grounds all financial lwa le trades in the direction of Wikileaks.
The indictment does Wikileaks along with Datacell, a Swiss company that credit card payment processes and the donations for the klokkenluiderssite handles. The two want to get in Denmark an indictment to the court filing, reports Wikileaks. In addition to MasterCard and Visa, is also the Danish company Counter sued. Counter processed with a license of the two credit card companies payments.
In the indictment that the parties to the Danish court, wants to resign, the two credit card companies and Counter accused that they, the Danish trade laws have been breached when she was on 7 december in a coordinated action,’ all donations to Wikileaks blocked. Also have Wikileaks and Datacell Saturday to let us know that they to the European Commission a request for prosecution of Visa and MasterCard will resign for violating European competition rules. Would Wikileaks also plans to in ‘other juridisdicties’ lawsuits against Visa and MasterCard, to start with, which the organization refers to cases outside Europe.
Counter would earlier have let you know that the weather transactions through Datacell wanted to allow so that it is again possible to make donations via credit card to Wikileaks. MasterCard and Visa would the company have instructed to make all payments towards the klokkenluiderssite to continue to block. According to Wikileaks have both MasterCard and Visa no demonstrated its willingness to negotiate on the issue and are, therefore, legal action is necessary.
Blocking transactions to Wikileaks in december last year, had among others the consequence that the website of MasterCard with ddos attacks down. Also Visa was bombarded. In the case, which the los-fixed hackersbeweging Anonymous was organized in protest against the betalingsblokkade, was in the same month, a 16-year-old boy arrested.