[governance] How is this operationalised in the US?

[Parminder]

Riaz

> The Treasury states that "except for information or informational
> materials and donated articles intended to relieve human suffering, such
> as food, clothing and medicine, and the licensed export of agricultural
> commodities. no goods, technology, or services may be exported from the
> United States to Sudan".
>

Wonder if it means that, legally, ICANN cant export its services to
Sudan....

>the US Treasury has apparently banned
> access to images from Google Earth in Sudan as part of its ongoing
> export controls and economic sanctions against the country.


Google is now almost as universal and monopolistic an element of Internet's
architecture as ICANN. Its control by US government is a matter of great
concern. The problem is that other countries can only control/ regulate
google at and within their digital gates (as china does), i.e. if they can
afford good gates, but US can do it for other countries as well. 

And here we are still arguing whether there is any need at all for globally
acceptable Internet policies... 

Parminder 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Riaz K. Tayob [mailto:riazt at iafrica.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 12:31 AM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Subject: [governance] How is this operationalised in the US?
> 
> http://panos.blogs.com/iwitnesses/2007/04/index.html
> 
> April 2007
> 25 April 2007
> US 'bans' access to Google Earth in Sudan
> 
> Only days after Google joined up with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
> to map the conflict in Darfur, the US Treasury has apparently banned
> access to images from Google Earth in Sudan as part of its ongoing
> export controls and economic sanctions against the country.
> 
> The Treasury states that "except for information or informational
> materials and donated articles intended to relieve human suffering, such
> as food, clothing and medicine, and the licensed export of agricultural
> commodities. no goods, technology, or services may be exported from the
> United States to Sudan".
> 
> The US Bureau of Industry prohibits the export of software to Sudan,
> unless it is pre-loaded onto a 'commodity' such as a mobile phone or
> computer. As Google Earth is hosted in the United States, downloading
> the software in Sudan is also subject to these restrictions.
> 
> However, Stefan Geens of the Ogle Earth blog notes that the internet has
> the tools to circumvent this ban - for example, through proxy servers
> and peer-to-peer networks. Perhaps more importantly, Stefan raises a
> pertinent question: where does 'information' end and 'software' begin?
> 
> Technorati Tags: darfur, google, google earth, sudan, united states
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