US Gov't Mistakenly Shuts Down 84,000 Sites 296
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."
Shotgun approach (Score:4, Funny)
"Tis far nobler that 84,000 innocent websites be taken down than 10 potential violators go free..."
er wait, that's not the quote... oh well too late for your site!
Re:Welcome to the USA (Score:5, Funny)
Where due process only exists for the highest bidder.
Now come on - it wasn't that bad. Let's see ... 10 out of 84,000 ... that's not quite as good as the average baseball player but just about on par with a weather reporter. All in all I'd say they had better accuracy than we thought they would (though we all hoped for a bit more).
Sorry dud. My bad. (Score:2, Funny)
And sorry about that Chinese Embassy [wikipedia.org] thing as well. Shit happens.
-- The government.
Oops, wrong domain. (Score:3, Funny)