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O'Brien suggested that Omidyar tell PayPal to offer a public statement about the reversal of the payment blockade. Omidyar then directed attention back toward his blog post and the bigger issues at stake.Eventually, Omidyar offered his undying praise and support for WikiLeaks despite their differences and shared a donate link to the whistleblower site via the Freedom of the Press Foundation. WikiLeaks corrected him with a link to its own donation page.After Glenn Greenwald tweeted Omidyar's op-ed Tuesday night, Cassandra Fairbanks voiced frustration over Omidyar's heretofore absence from the conversation, and the unnecessary degree of charges that'd been brought against the PayPal 14.@wikileaks This may be a dumb question but have you tried to open a direct account since 2011?
— Pierre Omidyar (@pierre) December 4, 2013
@ggreenwald @pierre well written & makes valid points, but I think its going to be hard to appreciate the new venture unless he does better.
— cassandra (@CassandraRules) December 4, 2013
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Omidyar is right to have brought the underreported case more attention, despite of and because of controversial position. It raises the point that comes up every time I think about the intelligence debate, and the kinds of power, control and ego that emerges in its wake. It becomes more and more apparent each time I approach it: The ethics committee needs an ethics committee.@danstuckey@carwinb Given the lack of press attention to the case, I wanted to share my views and draw attention. Hence my HP piece this week.
— Pierre Omidyar (@pierre) December 5, 2013