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Canadian Domain Registry Pulls Plug on Free Speech

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the surprised-we-haven't-seen-that-here dept.

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. Fails to explain... by spiritraveller · · Score: 5, Interesting

    how he was able to accomplish this.

    However, the article does imply that noone is willing to admit to setting up the site.

    Maybe the site's operator didn't provide accurate information when registering it. If that is the grounds for deregistering it, then it's not quite the free speech issue it's made out to be.

  2. google's cache :) by zimsters · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Google already cached it:
    http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:MW-vckW5UbEJ:ww w.youthforvolpe.ca/+&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=1&clie nt=firefox-a

    No images, but you get the text and layout at least!

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