NYT on Banks and Wikileaks: "a troubling prospect"

A New York Times editorial today on the recent actions of Bank America, Visa, PayPal, and Mastercard to block payments to Wikileaks says the moves raise "troubling questions," given the fact that Wikileaks has not been charged or convicted of any crime: What would happen if a clutch of big banks decided that a particularly irksome blogger or other organization was "too risky"? What if they decided -- one by one -- to shut down financial access to a newspaper that was about to reveal irksome truths about their operations? This decision should not be left solely up to business-as-usual among the banks. Banks and Wikileaks (NYT)...

NYT on Banks and Wikileaks: "a troubling prospect"

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Cables teased in NYT: plans to unify Korea; Pakistan nuke standoff; U.S. threatened Germany over CIA kidnapping

After Spiegel published details of the Wikileaks' diplomatic cable cache early, the New York Times has also gone live with its coverage. It reports that the documents amount to a 'huge sampling' of daily traffic between the U.S. State Department and embassies abroad. Among the revelations:

Cables teased in NYT: plans to unify Korea; Pakistan nuke standoff; U.S. threatened Germany over CIA kidnapping

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