U.S. Government blacklists Sites On Cuba
Feds blacklist ‘illegal’ Cuban Web sites By Anne Broache, CNET News.com, July 8, 2005.
In a lengthy regulation (”Alphabetical Listing of Blocked Persons, Specially Designated Nationals, Specially Designated Terrorists, Specially Designated Global Terrorists, Foreign Terrorist Organizations, and Specially Designated
Narcotics Traffickers“) published in the Federal Register, the
Office of Foreign Assets Control, lists web sites that facilitate
travel to Cuba. (Federal Register
July 1, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 126)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 38255-38499])
“The U.S. Treasury Department has blacklisted more than 60 Cuba-centric sites, many maintained by a travel company…because they provide easy access to Cuba for Americans who choose to break the law, the OFAC says. While visiting the sites may be permitted, downloading software from them probably isn’t.”
“The problem, really, with the OFAC regulations and export controls generally is they weren’t designed for the Internet,” said Douglas Jacobson, a sanctions lawyer in Washington, D.C.