endh1b2.com moves to Canada

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US-based Indian origin Tech firm Apex Technology Group had initiated legal action against American blogs EndH1B, Itgrunt and Guestworkerfraud. Apex Technology Group, which counts IBM, Microsoft, UBS and other blue chip companies as clients, wanted to protect its reputation after EndH1B published a post accusing it allegedly of mistreating Indians on H1B Visas.

Apex has flatly denied all allegations made against it. At this point in time none of the allegations have been proved in court. (For full story see Techgoss articles at the end of this snippet).

What Apex wanted was to use its lawyers to get all articles criticizing it removed from EndH1B, Itgrunt and Guestworkerfraud. But they landed up requesting the New Jersey based American Court to remove the 3 websites from the internet. On Dec 23, 2009 the Judge, instead of asking for only anti Apex articles to be removed, banned the 3 websites. Banned as in ejected from the internet.

While Techgoss was the first Indian site to report this news, soon American national media picked up the story. International sites like Slashdot, Computerworld, Techdirt, Arstechnica and others reported the story. While many journalist and Americans did not agree with some of the views expressed by EndH1B and ITGrunt, most felt that banning them was not only unjustified but it may have even been illegal under the American constitution.

On Dec 30, Techgoss had said that while we disagreed with the venom in some of the anti H1B and anti Indian blogs, the ground reality is that there is not much we can do about it. Apex has made a mistake by getting the websites banned. There is no way Apex can win this battle either in Court or in the hearts and minds of most Americans.

http://www.techgoss.com/Story/305S12-Banned-anti-H1B-site-moves-to-Canada.aspx