US Government censors 70 websites for whole world

[Joanne98]

The US is really ramping up its war on intellectual property infringement, a war which I’m sure will be just as successful, cheap and supported by the people as the wars on drugs and terrorism. The US has started seizing the domain names of various websites through ICANN – not because owners of these sites were convicted of anything, but merely because complaints have been filed against them. Anyone want to take a guess how long it will be before the US government blocks WikiLeaks?

The current seizures of domains did not even use the recently passed censorship law. The seizures come from the US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, and cover about 70 websites relating to potential copyright infringement and counterfeit goods, among which is Torrent-Finder.com, a mere torrent search engine which does not host or even link to torrents; it displays content hosted elsewhere through embedded iframes.


“My domain has been seized without any previous complaint or notice from any court!” the owner of Torrent-Finder explained TorrentFreak, “I firstly had DNS downtime. While I was contacting GoDaddy I noticed the DNS had changed. Godaddy had no idea what was going on and until now they do not understand the situation and they say it was totally from ICANN.”

This is equivalent to having your house seized for pointing out to someone you can buy weed in the college district. The craziness goes even further – ordinary search engines are really effective at finding unauthorised copyrighted content as well. You can use Google to find the latest Parenthood episode in 720p, and Bing, too, is pretty good at it. Why aren’t we seeing notices for these domains as well?

Body scanners, sexual assault patdowns, censorship laws, seizure of property without even a notice (let alone a court order or conviction), even without doing or having done anything illegal. Welcome to the police state. It won’t be long now until the US government – and other government will surely follow – will start blocking websites that do not fall within the government’s favour. I’m sure WikiLeaks is being put on censorship lists as we speak.

http://landofthefreeish.com/politics/us-government-censors-70-websites-for-whole-world/

[Hawkeye-X]

1. They seized one yesterday or something

I don't go there. It was on DU.

[Poll_Blind]

2. It's NOT the "police state". It's the "corporate police state"and your comment on Google shows why.

Because Google, and others to be sure, but let's just look at Google- because Google can and does exactly what, say, some of these Torrent indexers do. But Google is the Big Boys and nobody's going to mess with them.

PB

[msongs]

3. lol the Bush presidency marches on nt

[tyne]

4. I look at this

like I look at regulating corporations. Capitalism can be great...but not unregulated...as evidenced, it'll fail. The same way with the internet. Cheaters and liars would ruin it for the legit if left unregulated.

China sells goods under US company names plus a bunch of other cheating crapola. I don't think that's okay...why would we want out own cheaters to do the same thing to us?

[Billy Burnett]

5. Not to mention the US's sanctions preventing Cuba's connecting to the fiberoptic trunk of the WWW.

Cisco cannot allow Cuba to connect to the Cisco owned Caribbean fiberoptic trunk because of the US's extraterritorial sanctions. Essentially censoring/preventing the vast majority of Cubans from affordable internet.

Then the US blames Castro on the inability of Cubans having access to the WWW.

The US has jumped the rails and is careening like a derailed locomotive heading for a cliff.

[progrocktv]

6. Siezed 70+ domain names, not all linked to "piracy"

Apparently a couple were only torrent search engines and a few sites were shut down just DISCUSSING the news story! This ain't good!

[RKP5637]

7. And it will be expanded I bet to eventually censor anything considered political

dissonance for whatever reason by whomever depending on how the wind is blowing. This is just the start, always done for goodness and then drifts astray.

[provis99]

8. yet you can watch scat porn and bestiality videos on government computers.

What a sense of priorities bureaucrats have.

[Jackpine Radical]

9. Their priorities are on target.

Scat porn doesn't threaten the Empire.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

10. DU will be on the list also

bet me.

Way too much info here. way too easy to assemble

[tiptoe]

11. America will not be free again until we RE-INVESTIGATE 9/11, Expose & PROSECUTE The REAL ENEMIES! nt