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Hosting Services May Be Breaking Syrian Sanctions

Posted by Soulskill on from the digital-confusion dept.

judgecorp writes "Many Syrian government sites and services are hosted outside the country, in the U.S., Canada and Germany. A recent report suggests the hosting services may be breaking international sanctions against the Syrian regime, and assisting it in committing 'crimes against humanity.'"

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  1. North Korea too, and it's not new by CmdrPony · · Score: 5, Insightful

    North Korea has hosted their govermental websites (for outsiders, anyway) in Spain. For example korea-drp.com is hosted on IP 91.142.218.24 in Malaga, Spain. It's been there for years. (I know because I've planned visiting there, and looked it up a few times)

    And seriously, hosting services assisting in "crimes against humanity"? They are informational sites about countries. It makes sense for them to outsource their hosting. Hell, even United States uses Akamai. If you want to do censorship against countries or things you don't agree with, sure, go ahead and silence their websites. But country having a website has nothing to do with "crimes against humanity".