Thursday, December 22, 2011

Oops!Did we shut-down your website wrongly for ONE YEAR?S*** happens #tcot #tlot #p2

DHS abruptly abandons copyright seizure of hip-hop blog | Privacy Inc. - CNET News

http://m.cnet.com/Article.rbml?nid=57339569&cid=null&bcid=&bid=-281

....”What's unusual here is that normally U.S. law strongly discourages efforts to censor Web sites before a full trial can be held. That's called "prior restraint," and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Pentagon Papers case that even top-secret national defense information did not qualify for temporary, pre-trial censorship.”....

....”But in the DaJaz1 case, a series of allegations of dubious reliability offered in an ICE affidavit were enough to censor a popular music blog--which had been featured on MTV News a few months earlier--for over a year.”...

Posted via email from fightingstatism

No comments: