Canadian Censorship Takes Down 4500 Sites

uncadonna writes "According to activist group The Yes Men, the government of Canada 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.'"

Re:in soviet russia web site Censors you!

[negrace]

Do you mean in Soviet Canada?

Re:Conservatives

[Anonymous Coward]

Welcome to the club.

Question about jackbooted thugs

[NotQuiteReal]

Wouldn't the Canadian authorities really be lumberjackbooted? If so, do they have pointy high-heels? Those could really hurt!

Only in America!

[GhostGuy]

Wait, what? Oh fuck. Thanks, Canada, there goes my backup plan...

Re:Works for me

[palegray.net]

The government's request may be naive, but Serverloft was plain stupid.

Serverloft is obviously too big to fail.

/me runs.

Re:Downhill slide in gov'ts?

[Shoe Puppet]

[This comment has been removed due to legal action from the Government of Canada]

This comment will be, so I don't even bother to post it.

Re:Works for me

[oldspewey]

Do either of you know of any good restaurants and guesthouses in Yanale Heh? I'm backpacking in that direction and plan to arrive there sometime early next week so long as the buses can make it through the roads during monsoon season.