Thursday, February 17, 2011

Self important yet incompetent Department of Justice and Homeland Security’s ICE takes down sites "by mistake"

The censor and the buffoon, hard to tell apart.

The US Government has yet again shuttered several domain names this week. The Department of Justice and Homeland Security’s ICE office proudly announced that they had seized domains related to counterfeit goods and child pornography. What they failed to mention, however, is that one of the targeted domains belongs to a free DNS provider, and that 84,000 websites were wrongfully accused of links to child pornography crimes.

Read more here.

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