[AfrICANN-discuss] me.ga suspended

[Y Mshana2003]

Thank you Ashok for the constructive intervention. I m glad that the suggestion has come up at the right stage of the on going discussion :-)
The bottom line is that There are political leaders in each country we have to respect that fact. Techies need to inform and influence the decisions of their political leaders accordingly in order to avoid such decisions as .ga issue.

Hence the need to have credible Policies is obvious.
We have to work with our leaders as long as there is a Policy to guide all in what is being done. 
Btw it depends on how individual government considers issues of its national importance.

That is all for now on this from me.

Kind regards
Yassib
From Yassin . Sent from samsung mobile. On O2.

Ashok Radhakissoon <ashok at afrinic.net> wrote:

     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> wrote:
"I have instructed my departments to immediately suspend the site 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, 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

_______________________________________________
AfrICANN mailing list
AfrICANN at afrinic.net
https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann



-- 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Seun Ojedeji,
Federal University Oye-Ekiti
web:      http://www.fuoye.edu.ng
Mobile: +2348035233535
alt email: seun.ojedeji at fuoye.edu.ng




_______________________________________________
AfrICANN mailing list
AfrICANN at afrinic.net
https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/africann/attachments/20121109/efe56b63/attachment.htm