PayPal, owned by the auction website eBay, said the account had been frozen because it was being used for "illegal" activity.
This week Amazon withdrew its cloud hosting of WikiLeaks' cables site and the WikiLeaks.org domain was taken offline. It has since moved to other domains based outside America.
PayPal said: "PayPal has permanently restricted the account used by WikiLeaks due to a violation of the PayPal acceptable use policy, which states that our payment service cannot be used for any activities that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity. We've notified the account holder of this action."
TVNL Comment: Exposing the secret and sometimes criminal activities of so called elected officials, and exposing the truth behind what goes on in OUR government, is a crime. How is THAT for "freedom?"