Senator Wyden Asks DHS To Explain Domain Seizures

An anonymous reader writes "With Homeland Security continuing to seize domain names without warning and without giving site operators a chance to respond to charges, it appears that at least some people in the US government are quite concerned about this turn of events. Techdirt has a copy of the full letter Senator Wyden has sent to both Attorney General Eric Holder and ICE director John Morton, asking a series of pointed questions concerning the domain seizures and how they impact due process, free speech and sovereign rule in foreign countries."

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Re:Duly filed

[ceriphim]

You can use adult words around here, this isn't Battlestar Galactica. Some choices available to you in lieu of "frak": Crap (if you're feeling PG), shit or fuck (if you're feeling a little more R-rated), or you can even substitute f*ck (think of the children!).

Re:When you're downloading MP3s...

[hairyfeet]

Don't forget that they've recently grabbed domains that simply linked to where you can watch sports feeds, gotta protect the money those megacorps spent on the superbowl!

What is pathetic is how blatantly the federal arm is used as nothing but free attack dogs for the megacorps. Can't be spending their time and our taxpayer money actually trying to keep our country safe, heaven for fend, no we must insure that these multinational megacorps can enjoy their God given right to ever increasing profit margins! When you see crap like this and read information like how much we've lost thanks to kissing the corporate booty is it any wonder this country is falling on just about every scale you can find? Hell we've lost 42,000 factories in just the last decade!

I give it about another decade tops before the rich in this country get to re-enact the fall of Saigon. You simply can't print your way out of debt without becoming another Zimbabwe and pretty much the only thing keeping the peasants from following Egypt's example is the checks being passed out by the fed. You have an ever growing underclass with no jobs, no hope, and no future. With an ever growing underclass it won't take long before we get our own Lenin or little German to stir the underclasses into following Egypt, my guess is it will be right about the time those checks the fed keeps cranking out won't even buy a loaf of bread.