Iceland may ban MasterCard, Visa over WikiLeaks censorship

[InToXiCoLoGisT]

Credit card companies that prevented card-holders from donating money to the secrets outlet WikiLeaks could have their operating licenses taken away in Iceland, according to members of the Icelandic Parliamentary General Committee.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/m...and-wikileaks/

What next? Paypal?

[Struwwelpeter]

Great go ahead and let them make their economy thirty times worse than it already is, if that is even possible.

[ComradeAsh]

What, are they going to start taking American Express now?

Bahahahahhahahhah.

[Pooka]

Iceland is gonna fuck itself over economically.

[Super Alley Cat]

Silly, MasterCard and VISA won't really care, and Iceland will just fuck itself up. Talk about cutting of the nose to spite the face.

[Om Namah Shivaya]

At least someone finally said "wait, this shit sucks"

[LSA King]

Honestly, FUCK PAYPAL. They are 10x worse than Visa or Mastercard and the only negative attention PayPal has gotten in the news is because of Wikileaks, what they don't tell you is they pull this shit ALL THE FUCKING TIME! Every single website I've been on that uses/used paypal has had issues with paypal holding funds for various and sometimes unmentioned reasons.

From Independent News media outlets to private torrent trackers. When you visit a website long enough that deals solely in paypal you'll eventually see the bullshit they force you to put up with. If anyone needs to be surgically removed from the Internet banking business it's PayPal. Only problem is PayPal's closest competitor is probably unknown to 99% of the web users.

[White Jesus]

Originally Posted by LSA King

Only problem is PayPal's closest competitor is probably unknown to 99% of the web users.

Alertpay?

[zuperxtreme]

Good for Iceland.

Did you guys hear that they were electing regular people to draft their new constitution? http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...030ba7ef0204c1

The sparsely-populated volcanic island is holding an unusual election Saturday to select ordinary citizens to cobble together a new charter, an exercise in direct democracy born out of the outrage and soul-searching that followed the nation's economic meltdown.
Hundreds of people are vying for the chance to be among up to 31 people who will form the Constitutional Assembly slated to convene early next year — a source of huge pride for Icelanders who have seen their egos take a beating in recent years.
"This is the first time in the history of the world that a nation's constitution is reviewed in such a way, by direct democratic process," says Berghildur Erla Bergthorsdottir, spokeswoman for the committee entrusted with organizing the Constitutional Assembly.
Iceland has never written its own constitution. After gaining independence from Denmark in 1944, it took the Danish constitution, amended a few clauses to state that it was now an independent republic, and substituted the word 'president' for 'king.' A comprehensive review of the constitution has been on the agenda ever since.

It doesn't get much more Democratic than that.

[Cito]

Eve online devs (based in Iceland) has mentioned the possibilities of no longer taking MasterCard

I'm all for it although I use my bank debit card that has visa logo but I also use paybycash online/ paypal as well

[reject]

Originally Posted by LSA King

Honestly, FUCK PAYPAL. They are 10x worse than Visa or Mastercard and the only negative attention PayPal has gotten in the news is because of Wikileaks, what they don't tell you is they pull this shit ALL THE FUCKING TIME! Every single website I've been on that uses/used paypal has had issues with paypal holding funds for various and sometimes unmentioned reasons.

From Independent News media outlets to private torrent trackers. When you visit a website long enough that deals solely in paypal you'll eventually see the bullshit they force you to put up with. If anyone needs to be surgically removed from the Internet banking business it's PayPal. Only problem is PayPal's closest competitor is probably unknown to 99% of the web users.

It's cos PayPal is run by Jews.