[governance] Interesting News: Linkedin denies service for countries under US trade sanctions

[Roland Perry]

In message 
<701af9f70904200548j695867f4ic8ddb96bb07ecd2f at mail.gmail.com>, at 
17:48:15 on Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com> writes
>Linkedin, the business social networking service, blocked out all
>users from countries under US sanctions claiming that their services
>are subject to export and re-export control laws and regulations. This
>includes the sanctions programs maintained by the Treasury
>Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. According to an email
>from the company’s customer service, linkedin states: “We do not allow
>member accounts or access to our site from Cuba, Iran, North Korea,
>Sudan, or Syria.”
>
>An issue that emerges from the above news is that are the people under
>a governance system not accepted by an influential country that has a
>major stake in the Internet infrastructure allowed to use that
>technology to come out of their grave state of affairs enabled by the
>Internet?

Isn't the problem that Linkedin is based in the USA? They have to comply 
with US law. Alternatively they could "do an Ebay [Europe]" and relocate 
their web presence to Switzerland.
-- 
Roland Perry
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