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Network Solutions Suspends Site of Anti-Islam Film
h4rm0ny notes the furor over an anti-Islamic movie due to be released on the Web in the next week. After Pakistan disrupted YouTube worldwide over an interview with right-wing Dutch MP and filmmaker Geert Wilders, Network Solutions, acting as host as well as registrar, has suspended Wilders's site promoting the 15-minute film "Fitna" (a Koranic term translated as "strife"). The site now displays a notice that it is under investigation for possible violations of NetSol's acceptable use policy. According to the article the company's guidelines include "a sweeping prohibition against 'objectionable material of any kind or nature.'" The article describes the site's content before NetSol pulled the plug as a single page with the film's title, an image of the Koran, and the words "Coming Soon." No one but Wilders has seen the film to date. The Dutch government has distanced itself from the film, fearing Muslim backlash. A million Muslims live in The Netherlands. Wilders's party, which controls 9 of 150 seats in the Dutch parliament, was elected on an anti-immigration platform.
There is only one question: If no one else volunteers, will SourceForge, Inc volunteer to host the movie for free! If the answer is no, then Slashdot has no right to an opinion.
Also, let's not forget that Plame was made so "miserable" (to use your adjective) at being "outed" that, in order to avoid more public intrusion into her life, her husband wrote a book about the whole affair
Why shouldn't he? Her career had been destroyed, they might as well make the best of it.
But don't let that get in the way of you screaming, frothing, and vituperating that it's all the fault of some vast right-wing Bush Conspiracy(tm).
Who's talking about a "vast conspiracy"? A member of the Bush administration leaked the name of an undercover CIA operative to press after her husband criticized the administration. None of your waffling is going to change it.