Canada, U.S. servers host Syria, Hezbollah-affiliated content

[tabatha]

Canadian, American and German web servers hosting Syrian government websites could be in violation of sanctions against Damascus, a report has said on Sunday.

The government websites, including one belonging to a Syrian state-backed television station being hosted in Canada, incite violence and support the crackdown on civilians led by the embattled President Bashar al-Assad and his regime, writes an academic study from the University of Toronto.

“Our findings peel back the layers of a complex, highly nuanced, and often seamy world of Web hosting,” said Ron Deibert a director at Citizen Lab, a research organization based out of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto.

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