hello,<br><br>the problem was resolved yesterday for syrian users, <br><a href="http://jilliancyork.com/2009/04/19/linkedin-doing-the-right-thing/">http://jilliancyork.com/2009/04/19/linkedin-doing-the-right-thing/</a><br>
<br>Rafik<br><br><br>PS meedan is more oriented for western as the aim is to translate arabic content.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Fouad Bajwa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fouadbajwa@gmail.com">fouadbajwa@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi All, I picked this news item up from a US based Arab oriented<br>
service called Meedan.net but some members on the governance list<br>
might want to dig a bit deeper into this issue of Internet<br>
Authoritarianism:<br>
<a href="http://beta.meedan.net/index.php?page=events&post_id=274105" target="_blank">http://beta.meedan.net/index.php?page=events&post_id=274105</a><br>
<br>
Linkedin denies service for countries under US trade sanctions<br>
<br>
Linkedin, the business social networking service, blocked out all<br>
users from countries under US sanctions claiming that their services<br>
are subject to export and re-export control laws and regulations. This<br>
includes the sanctions programs maintained by the Treasury<br>
Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. According to an email<br>
from the company’s customer service, linkedin states: “We do not allow<br>
member accounts or access to our site from Cuba, Iran, North Korea,<br>
Sudan, or Syria.”<br>
<br>
An issue that emerges from the above news is that are the people under<br>
a governance system not accepted by an influential country that has a<br>
major stake in the Internet infrastructure allowed to use that<br>
technology to come out of their grave state of affairs enabled by the<br>
Internet?<br>
<br>
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<br>
Regards.<br>
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Fouad Bajwa<br>
@skBajwa<br>
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