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US Gov't Mistakenly Shuts Down 84,000 Sites
Chaonici writes "Last Friday, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seized ten websites accused of selling counterfeit goods or trafficking in child pornography. However, in the process, about 84,000 unrelated websites were taken offline when the government mistakenly seized the domain of a large DNS provider, FreeDNS. By now, the mistake has been corrected and most of the websites' domains again point to the sites themselves, rather than an intimidating domain seizure image. In a press release, the DHS praised themselves for taking down those ten websites, but completely failed to acknowledge their massive blunder."
So, tell me again how it's a good thing for the FCC to have control?
Of course, it was done by mistake. The last thing you want to show your enemy before the real battle begins is your true capabilities. And I saw that the battle is imminent in the news last week. "It could happen in the US" was written in red, flaming letters on video walls across many newsrooms in this country. The end is nigh.
renice -20 `pgrep due` -u individual -g liberty
The problem is that there are over 600 district court judges. Since the internet is global, ICE just needs to find a single district judge to sign a warrant. That judge can be any of those 600 people. After ICE finds one compliant judge, who do you think they're going to go to first next time?