Repressive regimes may be targeting Net service providers
by John Walker
[T]he most interesting Web development came in late 1997, when
an Irish Internet service provider, Connect-Ireland, joined forces with
Nobel laureates Jose Ramos-Hort and Bishop Carlos Belo, who
had been among the most active people in the East Timor freedom
movement.
The idea behind their East Timor Project was to create what
amounted to a virtual nation. To do this, they took advantage of the
way Internet domains are created.
...
| Creating an East Timor top-level domain name, .tp, was a clever
| political maneuver. It effectively established a semiofficial
| presence, though what that really means is open to
| interpretation....
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