Comments on: Who is responsible for the Dubai Debacle? http://lirneasia.net/2012/12/who-is-responsible-for-the-dubai-debacle/ a regional ICT policy and regulation think tank active across the Asia Pacific Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:50:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Rohan Samarajiva http://lirneasia.net/2012/12/who-is-responsible-for-the-dubai-debacle/comment-page-1/#comment-58575 Rohan Samarajiva Sun, 16 Dec 2012 06:56:40 +0000 http://lirneasia.net/?p=20070#comment-58575 “These Regulations establish general principles which relate to the provision and operation of international telecommunication services offered to the public as well as to the underlying international telecommunication transport means used to provide such services. These Regulations do not address the content-related aspects of telecommunications.” Art. 1.1 of the approved text.

The ITRs are about international telecom services, not about everything under the sun.

]]> By: abdussamad http://lirneasia.net/2012/12/who-is-responsible-for-the-dubai-debacle/comment-page-1/#comment-58557 abdussamad Sat, 15 Dec 2012 11:17:49 +0000 http://lirneasia.net/?p=20070#comment-58557 The US government did try to take down wikileaks. It only survived by switching to European hosts and avoiding US based payment processors like paypal.

The US government also took down sites about Cuba:

http://havanajournal.com/politics/entry/ofac-orders-us-domain-registrar-enom-to-take-down-cuba-websites-update-343/

Other examples:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/feds-seize-foreign-sites/all/1

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/11/us-judge-orders-hundreds-of-sites-de-indexed-from-google-twitter-bing-facebook/

http://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-sports-streaming-domains-in-new-super-bowl-crackdown-120202/

http://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-130-domain-names-in-mass-crackdown-111125/

]]> By: Abu Saeed Khan http://lirneasia.net/2012/12/who-is-responsible-for-the-dubai-debacle/comment-page-1/#comment-58547 Abu Saeed Khan Sat, 15 Dec 2012 07:20:15 +0000 http://lirneasia.net/?p=20070#comment-58547 Neither wikileaks nor any website, except those containing child pornography, is down in the USA.

]]> By: abdussamad http://lirneasia.net/2012/12/who-is-responsible-for-the-dubai-debacle/comment-page-1/#comment-58544 abdussamad Sat, 15 Dec 2012 06:02:43 +0000 http://lirneasia.net/?p=20070#comment-58544 What about the US taking down sites it doesn’t like? Like wikileaks?

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