US wrongly suspends 84,000 websites

[Basil Chupin]

    Bungled action sacrifices free speech in pursuit of child abusers.

The US Government's child pornography enforcement action "Operation 
Protect Our Children" had huge collateral damage over the weekend when 
it mistakenly suspended 84,000 websites under the mooo.com 
<http://mooo.com> domain.

The Department of Homeland Security announced a victory on Tuesday, 
claiming the "execution of seizure warrants against 10 domain names of 
websites engaged in the advertisement and distribution of child 
pornography <http://www.dhs.gov/ynews/releases/pr_1297804574965.shtm>".

But they failed to mentioned that the action spearheaded by DHS 
Immigration and Customs Enforcement Cyber Crimes Center, also 
accidentally took down mooo.com 
<http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-shuts-down-84000-websites-by-mistake-110216>, the 
  most popular shared domain at afraid.org <http://afraid.org>, run by 
domain name services provider, FreeDNS.

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/248422,us-wrongly-suspends-84000-websites.aspx

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