Z:gnu-www-ja-free-digital-society--df01ff-And if you want to receive mon/en

And if you want to receive money, you can't just hold out a can. You need the cooperation of a payment company. And we saw that this makes all of our digital activities vulnerable to suppression. We learned this when the United States government launched a &ldquo;distributed denial of service attack&rdquo; (DDoS) against WikiLeaks. Now I'm making a bit of joke because the words &ldquo;distributed denial of service attack&rdquo; usually refer to a different kind of attack. But they fit perfectly with what the United States did. The United States went to the various kinds of network services that WikiLeaks depended on, and told them to cut off service to WikiLeaks. And they did!