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"... The WikiLeaks server was removed from Amazon.com without any judicial process. Second, the WikiLeaks domain name was removed by EasyDNS without any judicial process. Third, PayPal and Visa stopped providing services for WikiLeaks without any judicial process. These decisions were made in response to political and public pressure, mostly from the USA. This has seriously challenged one of postulates of Internet governance: that the United States is the benevolent guardian of the core Internet infrastructure. Regardless of their views about WikiLeaks per se, many national governments have started worrying that their core Internet resources, run by US companies or based in the USA, could face a similar destiny in a time of crisis. The first reactions came very quickly, including a decision by the Russian government to start using open source software as a way to reduce its dependence on Microsoft and other US-developed proprietary software..." "After the deluge: Internet governance in the aftermath of WikiLeaks" at http://deepdip.wordpress.com/2011/01/14/after-the-deluge-internet-governance-in-the-aftermath-of-wikileaks/ --
Gurumurthy Kasinathan Director, IT for Change In Special Consultative Status with the United Nations ECOSOC www.ITforChange.Net | Cell:91 9845437730 | Tel:91 80 26654134, 26536890 |
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