Canadian Censorship Takes Down 4500 Sites

uncadonna writes "According to activist group The Yes Men, the government of Canada has shut down two parody websites criticizing Canada's poor environmental policy. The article goes on to claim that 'In response to Environment Canada's request, Serverloft immediately turned off a whole block of IP addresses, knocking out more than 4500 websites that had nothing to do with the parody sites or the activists who created them. Serverloft was shown no warrant, and never called the web hosting company about the shutdown.'"

Comments

Uh, More Hoax?

[TrebleJunkie]

Uh, could the press release (from the Hoaxsters, no less) just be more of a Hoax?

Re:Hmmm

[BlueStraggler]

How else do you explain the politicians who self-identify as "conservative" who are so eager to expand the size and power of government?

That's an easy one. The core philosophy in conservatism is maintaining the existing power structures in society. The size of government is immaterial, and will be increased when necessary and decreased when unnecessary to the achievement of this aim. The existing power structure in the USA is based around the military industrial complex, which dictates big, big, big government (but which spends very little on actual social programs). The power structure in Canada is based around the resource economy, which dictates government small enough that the energy, mining, and forestry companies can override popular opposition. That pretty much explains everything you need to know about the differences between American and Canadian conservatives.

Re:Works for me

[Intron]

1) Saying something - speech.
2) Taking money or goods under false pretenses - fraud.

I don't understand your confusion here. There's already laws against 2). No need to bring 1) into a legal discussion at all.