United States Pirate Party

Today Paypal has frozen the assets of popular whistleblowing website Wikileaks.org.
The Wikileaks project is quite possibly one of the most influential free speech organizations to spring up in the past few years, helping publish documents exposing corruption that would otherwise have never made it to the general public.
When I saw Wikileaks.org take down their content a few weeks ago during the holidays for a fundraising drive, I was sad but hopeful that maybe they would get some cash to pay for the next year of service.
When I heard that Paypal froze their Paypal account for the second time, I was outraged. After some digging through comments on Slashdot, I saw that there were a great many people who have similarily been kicked off of Paypal for other arbitary reasons. Many websites have been devoted to spreading information about abuse by Paypal such as paypalwarning.com, paypalsucks.com, screw-paypal.com, etc.
One such criticism is that Paypal is not legally recognized as a bank and is not subject to the same regulations that other banks are, despite that it is the largest online payment service and Ebay(which owns Paypal) is a Fortune 500 company.
So what are the alternatives to PayPal? Good question. CNN published an article on the subject and Screw-Paypal.com recommends website developers to use Google Checkout to sell products online. I am sure any of these alternatives are not without their own caveats, but it is worth a look.
In the meantime, I suggest people make donations to the Wikileaks.org project so that it may continue fighting for free speech and exposing the injustices of out-of-control corporations and governments