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Then, there were the payment companies. The US went to PayPal and said: &ldquo;Stop transferring money to WikiLeaks or we'll make life difficult for you.&rdquo; And PayPal shut off payments to WikiLeaks. And then it went to Visa and Mastercard and got them to shut off payments to WikiLeaks. Others started collecting money on WikiLeaks' behalf and their accounts were shut off too. But in this case, maybe something can be done. There's a company in Iceland which began collecting money on behalf of WikiLeaks, and so Visa and Mastercard shut off its account; it couldn't receive money from its customers either. And now, that business is suing Visa and Mastercard apparently, under European Union law, because Visa and Mastercard together have a near-monopoly. They're not allowed to arbitrarily deny service to anyone.