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Where have the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the U.S. Air Force directed Twitter followers to learn more about military action in Libya?
To an Internet domain controlled by the regime of Col. Moammar Gadhafi.
They aren't the only ones to send their Internet followers through Libya.
So have House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio), Stanford University, Charlie Sheen, the White House, Kim Kardashian, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Paul McCartney, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and thousands of others.
The reason is a linguistic anomaly that might be Col. Gadhafi's most unlikely asset: Libya's Internet domain happens to be the English language's adverbial suffix: ly.
...
The .ly domain is controlled by Libya's General Post and Telecommunications Co., whose chairman, Mohammed el-Gadhafi, is the dictator's eldest son. It says it has rented out more than 10,000 .ly domains, either directly or through resellers.
Human Rights Watch, which has blasted the Gadhafi regime for blocking Internet access within Libya, is one organization that unwittingly used the .ly addresses.
"It's ironic and a little bit distasteful," says Tom Malinowski, the group's Washington director, upon learning the news from a reporter.
A spokesman for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) said her office was unaware of (link tracking not allowed)'s Libyan connection.
But "given this new information, we will no longer be using this free service," the spokesman said.
Bolded, italicized, and underlined by SKL.
Where have the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the U.S. Air Force directed Twitter followers to learn more about military action in Libya? To an Internet domain controlled by the regime of Col. Moammar Gadhafi.
Originally posted by lifttheveil
Great post, it's pretty ironic ain't it?
I don't think I share all your veiws though, for example I think it's just as bad on The UK's part that they are funding the missiles they're dropping on Libya with money they owe Gadafi but damn this is some two faced and inappropriate dealing going down.
Originally posted by SLAYER69
reply to post by SpartanKingLeonidas
The first paragraph made me spit up my scotch
Where have the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the U.S. Air Force directed Twitter followers to learn more about military action in Libya? To an Internet domain controlled by the regime of Col. Moammar Gadhafi.
Originally posted by LadySkadi
I'm just curious - are domain fees or oil funds more lucrative?
Originally posted by spyder550
Total Non Issue. DNS change and it is fixed. The traffic with .ly dosent go through nor is it controlled by Libya.
.com does not all run through Commerce GA.
Originally posted by Jean Paul Zodeaux
I used to think the government was incompetent, but the more I pay attention, the more I realize they are just too damn competent at their incompetence. Competent incompetence rules the day.
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Originally posted by DeadFlagBlues
reply to post by SpartanKingLeonidas
You know, in 2001 the greatest tool the government had was that they sold George W. Bush as a village idiot. Anything that had happened, anything that was unpopular and all it boiled down to was GWB being "dumb" or "stupid." Even this day, you'll hear "We inherited problems from that idiot Bush!"
Originally posted by DeadFlagBlues
Right. People believe that we mobilized 150,000 troops in a few short weeks, obliterated the 4th strongest army in the world in a matter of days with tactical air campaign, and had major control of multiple countries after a month on some aloof mistake of a good ol' boy?
Originally posted by DeadFlagBlues
No. This is exactly what the government and big business needs to happen, and now they're doing this with Obama, too. Under the guise of idiocy, they are giving us away to the banks, minimizing our freedoms and maximizing their penalties for taking some of those freedoms on, and making our everyday life a bureaucratic legal mess because it's easier for them to diffuse our freedoms than to strip them.
Originally posted by DeadFlagBlues
People pushing the "Obama is dumb" move are just propagating a lie, that will allow them as our "shepherd" to load us right up and on to the meat truck. "Does he even know where he's taking us." Yeah. He knew years ago, you just thought he was lost."
Originally posted by ShogunAssassins
reply to post by SpartanKingLeonidas
Bush was letting libya go nuclear...
Originally posted by ShogunAssassins
At the same time.. I wouldnt call this giving away America.. Not sure where that comes from?
Originally posted by JBA2848
You should petition at Act.ly on twitter.
act.ly...