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From the Law of Unintended Consequences:
Endurance couch-surfer and WikiLeaker-in-chief Julian Assange has thanked US authorities for the banking blockade that made it hard to donate fiat currencies to his organisation, because it inadvertently enriched the organisation.
The blockade first appeared in 2010, after the United States expressed its ire at WikiLeaks' publication of diplomatic cables. Not long afterwards, Mastercard and Visa stopped processing donations sent to the site.
WikiLeaks sued and won against Visa, but the blockade persisted. The organisation therefore sought alternative funding including Bitcoin.
Which brings us to an Assange Tweet from Sunday, as follows.
My deepest thanks to the US government, Senator McCain and Senator Lieberman for pushing Visa, MasterCard, Payal, AmEx, Mooneybookers, et al, into erecting an illegal banking blockade against @WikiLeaks starting in 2010. It caused us to invest in Bitcoin -- with > 50000% return. pic.twitter.com/9i8D69yxLC
— Julian Assange 🔹 (@JulianAssange) October 14, 2017
> 50,000%?
(Score: 2) by frojack on Monday October 16 2017, @05:52PM
Maybe you need a better class of friends.
Among my acquaintances (lots of them military) its about 50/50 on Snowden (the military people vehemently state they did not sign up and put their life on the line for the bastards in the TLAs). Military are less generous to Assange, but they essentially don't blame him, because the cat was already out of the bag by the time he got his hands on any leak worthy info.
Among my liberal friends I'd say more are negative on both, just because they both embarrassed Obama, but basically they don't understand the issues at all, so they simply parrot the party line.
I'd expect conservatives to be down on both those two, but surprisingly they could care less about Assange, and show mild condemnation of Snowden. Had he found refuge in any other country than Russia, they be in his camp.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.