The Justice Department is using its legal justification to take terrorists off the Internet to interfere in Iraq’s political structure, having seized a pair of websites belonging used as media by a Shi’ite militia which functions as part of the Iraqi government.
The websites, Aletejahtv.com and Aletejahtv.org belong to Ketaib Hezbollah, a militia which is an active part of the Shi’ite umbrella group in Iraq’s military, but which the US has political problems with, and has accused of being in league with Iran.
The Justice Department readily jumped from that to terrorist organization, seizing the sites in the name of “protecting our troops.” Its likely also about bolstering the current Iraqi PM, who is allied with the US but has struggled to coexist politically with the militias.
This is a dangerous precedent, with the US having a lot of political interests they’d probably like to intervene in by banning foreign media websites, and labeling them as terrorists seems to be a straightforward way.
expected in a nation where there is no independence of mind and imperialism is described as dimocracy
Nationalism = “Freedom”
Many in this country do not realize how dangerous we are.
The greatest threat to life on earth!
World’s biggest bully. Needs a serious takedown.
ICANN and its domain authorities definitely needs to be taken out of US hands. In fact, we’ll all be a lot better off once domain name maintenance gets taken away from governments altogether.
I wonder if Aletejahtv.com had not been registered via GoDaddy in Scottsdale whether such an impounding would have been possible.
I wonder what it will take to get the US to stop meddling in the affairs of other countries. Whatever it is, I hope I live long enough to see it.