{"id":7971,"date":"2003-04-07T09:09:24","date_gmt":"2003-04-07T09:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=7971"},"modified":"2003-04-07T09:09:24","modified_gmt":"2003-04-07T09:09:24","slug":"akamai-ends-relationship-with-al-jazeera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=7971","title":{"rendered":"Akamai Ends Relationship With Al-Jazeera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;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.&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\">Salon.com<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> Yet another example of blatant racism and the curtailing of freedom of the press in this country. Sure it&#8217;s not government oppression of the freedom of press &#8212; it&#8217;s private corporations making business decisions&#8230;isn&#8217;t it? Well a client search of Akamai turns up Voice of America as one of their clients, and I can&#8217;t help but think that some political pressure was brought to bear. <\/p>\n<p> 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&#8217;s services. They might decide to remove Akamai as a business partner if they realized that freedom of the press didn&#8217;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&#8217;s COO Mel Karmazin (parent company of MTV) at mel.karmazin@viacom.com. <\/p>\n<p> Opinion post; views not necessarily reflected by management or others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;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.&#8221; &#8211; Salon.com Yet another example of blatant racism and the curtailing of freedom of the press in this country. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=7971\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Akamai Ends Relationship With Al-Jazeera&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}