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NSA censorsing internet

by Arthur Dent last modified Mar 30, 2008 08:18 PM

The US National Security Agency has started openly using some of its commercial front organizations to openly censor the internet.

The open political censorship by Network Solutions of domain names for the film Fitna

and Hizbollah is a very BIG issue.

 

Network solutions is the DNS registrar for the whole of .com .net, .org and also provides registration of all registrars for all top level domains. It is a basically a front for NSA, also in control of Verisign digital certificates and Visa credit cards.

 

Network Solutions has set the DNS registration of both fitnathemove.com and hezbollah.org to "CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED" which prevents the owners from using their domain names with any ISP anywhere in the world. The owners are an anti-muslim Dutch politician and the largest political party in Lebanon and the stated reasons

are overtly based on political censorship.

 

In addition they have substituted their own web page advertizing their "services".  Clicking on the link on that page you can then "Learn More" about their "New Customer Protection Measures

" which protects them from having potential customers register (far cheaper) with other competing registrars by reserving domain names inquired about by potential customers so that for the next 4 days they can be registered by anyone at all who chooses to register with Network Solutions but cannot be registered by the original inquirer with any other registrar.

 

I still don't have time to work on this at all but decided to provide this info as I happen to be familiar with DNS registration issues and Network Solutions/SAIC/NSA/Verisign/Visa

to an extent that will take a while to percolate through to the general public.

 

NSA also routinely operates through credit reference bureaus like Dunn & Bradstreet and through the wholesale providers of the mailbox email services provided by retail ISPs and also social network services

worldwide.

 

NSA are the major proponents, suppliers and users of the increasingly "routine" demands for "official ID" used for political surveillance and manipulation taken to extremes by the Australian Electoral Commission using it as an excuse to pre-select which candidates will be listed on the ballot paper and to not count some 70,000 votes in the recent "election".

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