Fundraising is essential to political campaigns, large and small. Yet payment platforms, like PayPal, can unduly cut them off due to governmental pressure, automated flagging systems, or for undisclosed reasons.
WikiLeaks famously struggled with financial strangulation as it sought to publicise war crimes and information it deemed in the public interest. Visa was one company accused of putting “priority on political influence over the law” when it stopped taking payments to the organisation.
