<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body>How and why did that happen? For security or control of what?<div>Is there neutrality in running the Internet in the country?<br><br></div><div>Many questions to learn from this but.....we can not reach those inside Syrian. Gosh!<br><br><font size="2">From Yassin . Sent from samsung mobile. On O2.</font> </div><br><br><br>McTim <dogwallah@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br><br>Hi alexander,<br><br><br><br>On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Ntoko, Alexander<br><alexander.ntoko@itu.int> wrote:<br>> http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/hyping-one-threat-to-hide-another/article4140922.ece?homepage=true#.ULeox21T4aE.mailto<br><br>I can prove this is baseless propaganda by asking one simple question:<br><br>Who shut down the Internet in Syria today? Was it Google? No, it was<br>a government!<br><br>The author ( I have known him for over 7 years on another list) has an<br>anti-corporate bias (he has said in the past that a global body (yet<br>to exist) should have veto power over Facebook and Google policies.<br><br>Regards,<br><br>McTim<br><br><br><br><br>-- <br>Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A<br>route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel<br>_______________________________________________<br>AfrICANN mailing list<br>AfrICANN@afrinic.net<br>https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann<br> </body>