The whistle-blower website, Wikileaks, has been facing immense pressure from world governments. Recent actions taken by businesses (and possibly instigated by governments and news coverage) may have caused the greatest damage to-date.

Earlier this week, the web hosting company for the website, Amazon, canceled it’s account on the EC2 cloud computing environment, saying that the work of Wikileaks may have contributed to the endangerment of innocent people.

Shortly after, the domain name provider, EveryDNS.net,  for the website terminated it’s domain name.

Wikileaks.org had become victim to massive cyber attacks, which may have been conducted by nations. As a result of these distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS), approximately 500,000 other websites were affected.

Paypal joined the attack on Wikileaks by suspending the website’s account, which was it’s primary fund raising tool. The suspension of Paypal’s service was stated to be on account of: “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.”