Re: [Sheflug] Wikileaks

[Perry Ismangil <perry@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 16:45, Bob Mottram <fuzzgun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> As I understand it, and IANAL, none of those takedowns were the result
> of national laws being broken, but were merely based upon suspicion of
> terms of service violations.

OK, then it's the provider's TOS now that rules the Internet-land.
Which is even worse because there is no TOS-making bodies like
Parliament where we can elect our representatives.

> That's only because many popular web based services are based in the
> US (Twitter, Facebook, etc).  Fundamentally the technology of the
> internet is still quite decentralised, with the main bottleneck being
> ISPs.
>

Agreed, what I mean by 'Internet' is the 'Practical Internet bound by
TOS of providers' not the 'Technology of TCP/IP'. And because the most
used providers rely on US companies' TOS, which in turn must abide by
US laws, then any suspicions will result in TOS violations anyway.

-- 
Perry Ismangil

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