[AfrICANN-discuss] me.ga suspended

[Ashok Radhakissoon]

Dear All,
Such an action raises the question of the education of political leaders 
in matters of technology and the internet very specifically.Who will do 
this and how to do it?
Ashok.

On 08/11/2012 02:03, Seun Ojedeji wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 5:51 PM, SM <sm at resistor.net 
> <mailto:sm at resistor.net>> wrote:
>
>     "I have instructed my departments to immediately suspend the site
>     www.me.ga <http://www.me.ga>,"
>
>
> Interesting how easy it can be for government to just shut-down any 
> internet resources within their country.... O yeah...! perhas should 
> be a discussion topic at Baku!
>
> @Prof Nii as er your query, below is the summary a gathered from the 
> url provided by SM
>
> Dotcom unveiled plans last week to re-launch his file-sharing empire 
> on January 20.....The new site, www.me.ga <http://www.me.ga>, was to 
> be hosted on Gabon's .ga domain...the site was set up to redirect 
> traffic to another site hosted in France that would provide access to 
> shared files
>
> From the above i don't see any "unlawful" act at the moment (if there 
> is law of Internet). I guess they "ga" only read history and acted 
> based on that! Perhaps an opportunity to be on the news ;)
>
> Cheers!
>
>     Regards,
>     -sm
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