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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. Whats next? by pickyouupatnine · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Canadians visiting American sites getting angry at censored Canadian content. Its not like we wanted to see it anyway - but I s'pose its about the principal! Or was that principle?

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    1. Re:Whats next? by Toresica · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Do you see the .org in slashdot.org? It's called the World Wide Web for a reason, jackass.

      It's still an American site.

  2. Joey, go take your meds... by kclittle · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    ... and then take your nap. When you get up, you can use the crayons again; Dr. Melkin thinks the picture you did yesterday is, ummmmm, interesting...

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