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Comments: 5 +-   Wikileaks calls for global boycott against eNom-> on Saturday March 08 2008, @01:28PM souls

Submitted by souls on Saturday March 08 2008, @01:28PM
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souls writes "Seems like the folks at Wikileaks are on an anti-censorship-spree again: In a press release announced earlier, the site calls for global awareness and support in a boycotting campagin headed towards eNom., Inc., one of the top internet domain registrars, apparently involved in systematic domain censoring.
It appears eNom on Feb 28th shut down wikileaks.info, one of the many Wikileaks mirrors held by a volunteer as a side-effect of the court proceedings around wikileaks.org. That not being enough, the New York Times reported earlier this weekon numerous cases of domains held with eNom just disappearing, in connection to a Treasury Department driven blacklist that looks like a fairly random compilation of domains and information in a massive file.
Wikileaks calls for a global boycott of eNom and its parent Demand Media, its owners, executives and their affiliated companies, interests and holdings, to make clear such behaviour can and will not be tolerated within the boundaries of the internet and its global community."
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  • Have non-government backed boycotts ever done much? Does anyone out there think they could change registrars for their employer's site based on this? Is Microsoft going to stop working with them over this? Didn't think so. [demandmedia.com]
    • well, what about challenging it? wont happen if we all doubt it! actually i would even say the domain market is a good place for public opinion, lots of private "consumers" out on this one ...
      • I would really like for consumer awareness boycotts to work, but I don't really know of any that have. Do you think this issue id strong enough to effect Demand Media' stock price? Because that's the only thing that really seems to work. [referenceforbusiness.com]

        I think a more functional alternative to the boycott is the establishment of a "standard of quality" like Dolpin Safe Tuna [earthisland.org] or FairTrade coffee and chocolate. [transfairusa.org] They can be a small niche market that slowly gains popularity while still being effective. Boycotts that don't star
        • You see, I am actually trying to motivate people to prove that this also works for misconduct on the internet and the domain name system. which should be in everyones interest hanging around this end of the network. While I am actually drinking a fairtraded coffee sold in a local coffee shop to help sustaining a better world where the coffee got grown (vianna melange, so columbia and guatemala), to help sustain my local traditional retail environment and to help me keep going to make an actual difference. a
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