We’ve already posted one harrowing tale of small businesses having to deal with the unregulated machine that is Paypal, but today WikiLeaks – “an non-profit organization funded by human rights campaigners, investigative journalists, technologists and the general public” – has put up a note explaining that Paypal has frozen their assets for the second time:

Paypal has as of 23rd of January 2010 frozen WikiLeaks assets. This is the second time that this happens. The last time we struggled for more than half a year to resolve this issue. By working with the respected and recognized German foundation Wau Holland Stiftung we tried to avoid this from happening again — apparently without avail.

We are working on resolving this issue as fast as possible. Please use our bank accounts for direct transfer in the meantime, or contact wl-donations@sunshinepress.org for any further questions.

WikiLeaks is not the only non-profit organization with this problem. This is a regular occurrence, that from our perspective should not be tolerated by the global community using this payment system.