[governance] FW: <incom> Ivo Skoric: Who controls the Net? [u]

[Gurstein, Michael]

Perhaps of interest here...

MG

-----Original Message-----
From: incom-l-bounces at incommunicado.info
[mailto:incom-l-bounces at incommunicado.info] On Behalf Of Ivo Skoric
Sent: November 17, 2005 5:33 PM
To: edagro at balkansnet.org
Subject: <incom> Ivo Skoric: Who controls the Net? [u]


Serbian police and Belgrade district attorney complains that the Nazi
skinhead violent incident on the anti-fascist forum in Novi Sad, if they
had gotten co-operation from FBI providing them with physical locations
of computers that access Storm Front web site, as they did once before
when they were tracking pedophiles through the traffic of child porn on
internet. FBI commented, correctly, that, unlike being a pedophile,
being a Nazi is perfectly OK within the First Amendment, and that, until
those people acted out their anti-semitism and got criminally involved
in the incident in Novi Sad, they could not satisfy Serbian demands.
What I find interesting, however, is that FBI involvement is necessary
in the situation where both the victims and the perpetrators of the
crime are not US nationals (in that case they are Serbian), only because
the medium through which the crime is either committed or organized, is
literally out of reach to non-US police officials, with most of web
sites and domain names (the entire .com, .org, .net groups) being
registered in the US and being hosted by US servers. I don't think it is
talked or known enough abot this precarious control of the world that
the US excersises today, even besides its monetary might, and military
muscle.

http://www.blic.co.yu/danas/broj/strane/politika.htm#2

ivo
---------------------------------------------------------
Ivo Skoric
105 Robbins Street
Rutland VT 05701
802.775.7257
ivo at balkansnet.org
balkansnet.org



_______________________________________________
incom-l mailing list
incom-l at incommunicado.info http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/incom-l

_______________________________________________
governance mailing list
governance at lists.cpsr.org
https://ssl.cpsr.org/mailman/listinfo/governance