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Skriven 1999-05-15 16:46:58 av Ola Eriksson (2:205/624)
Ärende: USA försöker tysta jugoslaviens internetanvändare.
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* Crossposted in R20_INTERNET
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 13:11:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: 7Pillars Partners <partners@sirius.infonex.com>
Reply-To: iwar@sirius.infonex.com
To: g2i list <g2i@xmission.com>, IWAR list <iwar@sirius.infonex.com>
Subject: [IWAR] PSYOP US to make internet providers cut Yugoslavia links

US to make internet providers cut Yugoslavia links: report

     BELGRADE, May 13 (AFP) - The United States government has decided to
     order US Internet providers to cut all links belonging to Yugoslav
     web suppliers, the independent Beta news agency here quoted a local
     provider Thursday as saying.

     The agency said it was uncertain when the measure would be put into
     effect, but added, quoting the Beonet provider, that such a move "is
     against any rules and regulations regarding the use of Internet."

     Most Yugoslav providers do not have their own satellite links, but
     rent space and time from foreign ones.

     There are no official estimates of how many of Yugoslavia's 11
     million population use internet.

     But according to unofficial reports, more than 20,000 accounts have
     been registered in Belgrade alone in the first month of the NATO
     bombing campaign.

     Since then, e-mail messages have become the most reliable way to
     contact friends and relatives abroad, but also within the country,
     since phone lines have often been disrupted.

     There was no verification of the report from Washington.

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