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Free Dominion would have been better off to have kept it’s hosting in the US or in some other place that was out of reach of Canadian busy-bodies.
Waaaaat?
being in Canada, with everything that happened to Mark Steyn, they should have seen this coming. They should have asked themselves how much information it was necessary to keep.
From what I’ve read, Warman was a baiter, he would sign up to sites and post anything and everything to elicit a negative response he could use, most of his posts where worse than the ones he is complaining about.
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Time to donate to them, friends!
If the Canadian government finds Free Dominion so objectionable, they should pass a retroactive 90% tax on anyone involved with the website.
Warman is a whiney jerk. Calling him “Mr.” is an insult to actual men.
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They should fold up shop, destroy the records and move the hosting to the US. Screw the fascist bastards.
FR and America: Free Dominion is the canary in the mine shaft. Beware of how this will ripple in this country.
FD might want to have an Unfortunate Incident impact their disk drives.
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I wonder if the owner of the FR website would turn over membership records to the US government on demand? Such a thing could be literally dangerous to us.
I did a little research on offshore hosting in Panama.
I do not know this company, but as I ran through them, they all said the same thing:
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The Panama Advantage
Tax-friendly offshore hosting with strong privacy and world-class connectivity
Panama is world renowned as a major ‘tax-free’ jurisdiction with tens of thousands of enterprises already installed.
Panama enforces some of the most strict privacy laws in the world, making it illegal to share information with third parties. Panama is strategically located at the crossroads of North and South America where four major sub-ocean fiber-optic networks meet.
The combination of tax-free, strong privacy and network connectivity benefits are a huge incentive for any e-business selling information, products or services internationally to get web hosting offshore here from Panama-based Hub.Org.
Key advantages of Hub.Org operating in jurisdiction of Panama —
• Tax-Free Business Opportunities
Panama is known all over the world as an international business tax haven. Since taxes in Panama are assessed according to territoriality guidelines (ie only locally produced income may be taxed), foreign-source income is considered tax-free. as the government does not levy income taxes on businesses hosting their websites in Panama.
Unlike in the US, Canada, Australia, Europe, and other G-7 nations, where regulators have created laws that tax online businesses hosted in their country, hosting your website in Panama allows you to run your e-business tax-free.
“Businesses can now have North American connectivity speeds and reliability in a tax-friendly environment.” - Ian Lenathan (Ex - manager, Nortel Networks Corp.)
• World-Class Connectivity
Panama has historically played a major role as a transportation and communication center, connecting the North and South American continents, as well as the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Today Panama continues its pivotal role as a communications leader, sitting atop the intersection of over 4 major undersea fiber-optic networks. Thus Panama has some of the best fiber-optic cable access and bandwidth in the world, enabling Hub.Org to host websites easily accessable from Canada, Singapore, and Brazil.
“Why Panama? Because it’s one of the most wired places in the world. All of the fiber-optic backbones of the United States, Canada, and Latin America cross Panama. If there’s a problem inside the United States, the most obvious place to go outside is Panama.” - Nelson Bendeck (representative of Sun Tone, an arm of Sun Microsystems that is installing $500,000 worth of new server equipment and software in Panama)
• High Security
Geographically and politically, Panama is an unusually secure country for international businesses. Unlike many other popular offshore locations, Panama City is located outside of any earthquake, hurricane, and active-volcano zones. Our data center sits well above any flood zones and benefits from the advanced security infrastructure left behind in the former U.S.military-managed Canal Zone.
“Panama is one of the most secure places in the world. It has to be secure to allow international commerce to pass through the canal.” - Nelson Bendeck (a representative of Sun Tone, an arm of Sun Microsystems)
• Data Protection
Unlike the United States, Canada, and many European countries, the Panamanian government forbids outside regulatory agencies from removing, sequestering, or freezing a company’s assets (ie your website), unless a Panamanian court orders such actions.
• No Regulatory Constraints
Panama does not inflict the same high regulatory constraints for online businesses as most other countries. The country’s intellectual property laws grant online activities the freedom of free enterprise and free speech, liberties that are increasingly threatened in other parts of the world.
• Advanced Data Center Technology
Our servers are located at a high level security center based in the former Fort Clayton U.S. military base along the Panama Canal. The data center is fully protected from general power failures through the use of redundant power sources and backup power provisions. The facilities are constructed to meet seismic zone 3 criteria and have Point of Presence access to four major undersea fiber optic networks.Good luck to the Canadian government in trying to get information.
http://www.hub.org/en/home/panama.php
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Panama does not take orders from the Canadian government.
Thanks for posting. Interesting.
I’m lucky I don’t own a car.