The PayPal 14, protestors against PayPal et als economic sabotage of Wikileaks entered a principled plea bargain largely victorious. Wikileaks: ...A number of the PayPal blockade protesters were charged by US authorities. For almost four years these protesters, most of whom had never engaged in a protest before, faced threats of imprisonment for what was by all accounts a harmless measure against extra-legal economic censorship. The most well-known subgroup, the PayPal 14, had a significant victory on Thursday, beating felony convictions and jail time. Each will still have to pay $5,600 in restitution, a figure drastically lower than the $5.5 million in damages that PayPal initially, and falsely, claimed. Supporters of the protesters, including the Wau Holland Foundation, have raised monies to defray these costs....
Posted on: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 19:15:53 +0000
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