[ga] Re: Censorship or good practice? - Canadian Censorship Takes Down 4500 Sites

[Joe Baptista <baptista@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Jeffrey A. Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> All,
>
>  What are we looking at here?  It seems that the censors of the
> Canadian government have decided that there were a significant
> number of web sites that were for reasons of questionable validity,
> taken down.  Maybe Dr. Joe can enlighten us as to more detail?
>

No there were only two. It was the German ISP that went a little bonkers and
shut down 5,000 websites. You have to be a little bonkers if your a German
ISP that censors on behalf of foreign governments.

Hope that clears that up.

cheers
joe baptista



>
>  That's 2500+ in Great Britten and 4500 in Canada.  Will the US
> follow suit soon and in greater volume?
>
> See:
> https://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/12/29/1921257/Canadian-Censorship-Takes-Down-4500-Sites
>
> mailto:mtobis@gmail.FORTRANcomminuslanguage
> uncadonna writes "According to activist group
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_yes_men
> The Yes Men, the government of Canada http://theyesmen.org/canadareacts
> 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.'"
>
> Respectful regards,
>
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