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US attacking Aljazeera!
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| ZinG |
Aljazeera is down for 4days
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Aljazeera TV, March 26, 2003: The most popular TV station in the Arab world announced that since the start of the war against Iraq, its internet website has been repeatedly attacked by computer hackers. The website, whose internet traffic is now 185 Megabyte per second (M/S)–up from 35 M/S a week ago–claims that the organized sabotage is yet another front of the war waged by UK and American governments in the Middle East . The site says hackers speed up their attacks when Aljazeera posted pictures of American POWs on its website. According to the website this is not the first time US government is trying to silence the network: after the events of September 11, 2001, the FBI burst into an internet company hosting the Aljazeera website and confiscated the all it equipment. In another incident, because of unbearable pressure from “certain countries”, the biggest software and hosting companies refused to provide service to Aljazeera.
Editor’s Note: Apparently, due to another wave of sabotage, the Aljazeera website is today inaccessible.
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Nasdaq Stock Market Turns Away Al Jazeera
Wed March 26, 2003 04:04 PM ET
By Nicole Maestri
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Arabic-language television network al Jazeera, banned this week from airing live market reports from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, has also been turned down by the Nasdaq Stock Market Inc.
Al Jazeera asked Nasdaq on Tuesday for permission to broadcast live reports from its building in Times Square, Nasdaq spokeswoman Silvia Davi said, but the request was denied. She would not expand on why the Nasdaq refused.
The NYSE this week revoked credentials that allowed two al Jazeera reporters to broadcast from its fabled trading floor on Wall Street, saying its credentials were for networks that provided "responsible" coverage.
Some in the news business said the ban violated freedom of the press and set a bad precedent. "This is ridiculous," said Jeffrey Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, a media watchdog group in Washington, D.C. "Clearly, it is a violation of press freedom."
Al Jazeera has been criticized in the United States for broadcasting Iraqi television footage of U.S. prisoners of war and Iraqi casualties.
Al Jazeera had been reporting from the NYSE for four or five years, said NYSE spokesman Ray Pellecchia. He said the NYSE has a finite number of broadcast slots available, and wants to give priority to networks that "investors look to find out what's going on in the market."
Of the 25 or so networks that broadcast from the NYSE trading floor, al Jazeera is the only network to lose its credentials.
Al Jazeera said on Tuesday it regretted the NYSE decision.
"We urge the NYSE to reconsider its decision in the interest of upholding the values of the United States of America," the network said in a statement.
The NYSE is not reconsidering, Pellecchia said on Wednesday. Al Jazeera could not immediately be reached for further comment.
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| ahlamalek |
this is unnaceptable!
People have access to uncensored news and imagery and these bastards wants it to shut down!
Freedom of speech, MY ASS!!
If the US govt had good intentions, why silence this uncensored media? |
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| jdat |
the fact is what they're doing on that website under the geneva convention concerning Prisonner"s Of War is illegal ....
but ... that's beyond the point :rolleyes:
( no flaming intended ) |
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| PeacefulWarrior |
FREEDOM OF SPEECH***
***Does not imply complete freedom to speak or think in accordance with your beliefs. SEE RESTRICTIONS. |
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| fastmp3 |
| and then they claim "oh no we don't hate arabs or muslims" |
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| occrider |
Why are people associating hacker attacks by individuals against Al Jazeera as being synonymous with attacks by the US government? If you ask me you're generalizing the actions of the few as being the actions or the will of the many. There have been hackers attacking US government websites posting anti-war messages, and I have yet to see the US government come out to claim that the "Arab/Terrorist" community is attacking the US government :rolleyes: . What happend to that US company occurred LONG before this whole middle east crisis even began! At that time there was nothing to report so it could hardly be considered as cencorship of the press since there was nothing to censor!
And excuse me if the US government objects to video shoots of Iraqi troops lifting up the DEAD BODIES of american soldiers, gloating to show where THEY ARE SHOT IN THE HEAD. What, do you think that Americans are too stupid to realize that a dead soldier MEANS a dead soldier??? That we need to see video footage illustrating how a soldier died to embrace the concept that that person is dead??? Well let's forget about the families of these soldiers who have to look at these images again and again and again ... the American people NEED to see this! It is OUR RIGHT to watch the tragedy of others! Gimme a break ... these pictures are sadistic and manipulative in nature. A societal desire to extend reality tv to the next level. You don't see Americans lifting up Iraqi corpes to show to the entire world how they were killed do you??? Well fair is fair maybe we SHOULD! The Iraqis are doing it so it MUST be ok! I'm sure Al-jazeera will air it ... |
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| DaveSaenz |
Al-jazeera = Arab equivalent of Fox News....
Both are about equally disgusting IMO. :rolleyes: |
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| ahlamalek |
hehe how do you know? you understand Arabic?:rolleyes:
Arabic socities and western socities aren't alike. Showing someone dead on Arabic tv is very normal and happens quite frequently. In here, it is something that is unnaceptable. Both cultures have different values about this matter.
When I was young, I remember seeing dead soldiers from the Iran-Iraq war on Syrian/Iraqi TV. It was news like any other news. |
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| PeacefulWarrior |
| quote: | | Why are people associating hacker attacks by individuals against Al Jazeera as being synonymous with attacks by the US government? |
I'm not implying that the United States is responsible for hacking Al-Jazeera. It's temping to do so but we simply don't know who the hacker(s) are. However, to deny an organization the access to the NYSE and Nasdaq buildings is another issue. The Al Jezeera network are not terrorists, they will not bomb the NYSE and Nasdaq buildings, they have no malicious intentions, they are simply journalists. By denying them access, we are sending a clear message of intolerance to those who do not share our outlook on things. It's ironic to observe this in a country that is founded on the idea of tolerance.
So why is the NYSE and Nasdaq punishing these journalists? It is because Al Jazeera aired clips of fallen American and British soldiers. Your right occrider, the American people don't need to see those clips and instead they may choose to remain in that dellusional state of mind filled with illusions and deceptions that they consider reality. I will not speculate on what Al Jazeera's intention for showing these clips was--instead I view the segments as reminders of the grit, pain and horror that is war (which they unquestionably are).
I'm an advocate of all free speech and though, as ugly as it may be. |
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| fastmp3 |
| quote: | Originally posted by DaveSaenz
Al-jazeera = Arab equivalent of Fox News....
Both are about equally disgusting IMO. :rolleyes: |
jack
f0x news is pro governmental
al jazeera isn't since they denounce every single corrupt arab leader out there |
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| DaveSaenz |
| quote: | Originally posted by fastmp3
jack
f0x news is pro governmental
al jazeera isn't since they denounce every single corrupt arab leader out there |
Hmm. Ok.
Name some non-corrupt Arab leaders...:haha:
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