In stark contrast to John Howard’s closure of johnhowardpm.org and Melbourne IT’s subsequent silence, Sweden’s Foreign Minister Lalla Freivalds has resigned over allegations that she pressured a private Internet hosting company to close a website — something which is illegal in Sweden.
She becomes the fourth government minister around the world to lose a job over the anti-Muslin cartoons which originated in Denmark.
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