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Canadian Domain Registry Pulls Plug on Free Speech

An anonymous reader writes "The staff of a Canadian political candidate bragged today that he had managed to shut down a website critical of his involvement in a fundraising scandal, by having the country's registrar of domains pull the DNS records for the site. Criticism from bloggers and free speech advocates has been negative, and is coming from across the political spectrum."

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  1. Re:Apparently he did not even know who owned the.. by SpectreHiro · · Score: 5, Funny

    The important question is... Will you come to the defense of Mike Hunt? Mike Hunt is clearly in need of help right now, and only the actions of truly altruistic individuals like yourself can make bare the facts of this obviously hairy situation.

    Reports have it that some of Mike Hunt's other staff members - namely Mr.s Jack Mehoff and Holden McGroin - are organizing and mobilizing a grass-roots defense. I suspect they'll be tempted to use some dirty tactics, but this is clearly not the time to be hitting below the belt. We must hold ourselves to the highest standards and refuse to sink into the deep, dank, stinky chasm of corruption.

    After all, that's what Mike Hunt would expect of us all.

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  2. Re:apparently I'm right... by Beryllium+Sphere(tm) · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, it's like calling the fire department and telling them that the newspaper publishing cartoons about your corruption is violating the fire code.