04.07.2013 - 08:52 [ techdirt ]

Visa And Mastercard Ban Anonymizing VPNs… Just As They Allow Wikileaks

This is random. Just as Mastercard and Visa are allowing payments to Wikileaks again after a two year hiatus, those same two companies have started banning VPN providers. If you don‘t recall, the credit card companies refused to process payments for Wikileaks, following significant pressure from US officials, even as they have no problem processing payments to hate groups like the KKK.