Bismillah
Two years ago this month, the major online payment systems -- Visa, Mastercard,
PayPal and more -- cut off one of the world's most famous journalism
organizations from the public. They stopped taking payments on behalf of
WikiLeaks and, in the process, highlighted one of the most dangerous threats
to modern journalism: the ability of centralized third parties to make trouble
for anyone and any organization they didn't like, for whatever reason.
