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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. Re:Shouldn't that read... by Gorshkov · · Score: 0, Troll

    You're obviously not very familiar with Canadian politics, and certainly not familiar with LIBERAL politics.

    f..kups like that usually get people appointed to cabinet in this country, or rewarded with some freaking patronage job somewhere.

    This is the party where a member of the PRIME MINISTERS STAFF called Geogge W a "fucking moron" (yes, that's a direct quote) and was promptly defended by the PM (A Liberal) who said that the member in question had a right to their own view.

  2. Re:Shouldn't that read... by WNight · · Score: 0, Troll

    Pfah. It's the USA trying to bully their way into everything. They're in a BAD way over electricity and Canada is sitting pretty, on way more hydro power than they know what to do with, except sell south at crippling prices. The US'd be in a bad place without Canadian electricity, grain, and oil, both as a direct import, and as a safe buffer to call upon. Instead of doing the Canadian thing, and asking nicely for good treatment, the USA via the World Bank, et al have been pressuring Canada into very unfavorable privitisation deals (They're poor deals for everyone but the people buying the once-public utility) and crap like this softwood lumber dispute.

    But, if everyone was friends, Canada would have to stop charging ruinous prices (to already bankrupt states...) and I don't think anyone in Canada wants that. As long as Canada is in the lead, the USA will keep any crazy dispute alive as long as they can - witness Mad Cow, which was totally brushed off when it showed up in the US.

    I don't think Canadian government is trying that hard to make nice. There's best-friend status, and favoured-trading-partner. One lets you gouge the other party.

    Besides, George W. Bush *is* a fucking moron. But yeah, blame Canada for that too!