“The Web site of Arab satellite news channel Al-Jazeera was refused assistance this week when it sought help from Akamai Technologies Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., in dealing with hacking attacks and massive interest from Web users.” – Salon.com
Yet another example of blatant racism and the curtailing of freedom of the press in this country. Sure it’s not government oppression of the freedom of press — it’s private corporations making business decisions…isn’t it? Well a client search of Akamai turns up Voice of America as one of their clients, and I can’t help but think that some political pressure was brought to bear.
For those interested in helping Akamia make better business decisions, The New York Times and MTV are also media companies that make use of Akamai’s services. They might decide to remove Akamai as a business partner if they realized that freedom of the press didn’t matter to them. You can let your views be known by sending an email to Editor of NYT Digital Martin Nisenholtz at nytdceo@nytimes.com, or Viacom’s COO Mel Karmazin (parent company of MTV) at mel.karmazin@viacom.com.
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