84,000 websites "accidentally" taken down by internet killswitch

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/18/fed_domain_seizure_slammed/

Yeah... suddenly I'm a lot more comfortable living in a country run by incompetent Moral Guardians than legit tyrants.

That's... horrible.

Losing a domain name is one thing, but what I'm more worried about is the damage done to reputation.

Anything done in the name of "Protecting children" (That phrase specifically) is full of shit.

Not necessarily, it's just that it usually is.

edited 18th Feb '11 9:28:23 PM by TheMightyAnonym

No exceptions. Think of the Children! is, at its core a pretense. Anything which is actually ever done to protect children does not nor needs the "We need to think of the children!" pretense. Because, it is always a logical prerogative that needs no silly "Think of the children, bedamned the laws or civil rights!" bullshit.

I'm having trouble believing 100% what this article says.

Not that I'd be terribly surprised if it happened, just that this seems to be written by an internet freedom group, who are obviously a bit biased.

I don't think legis in general understand how domains work. A German court once disconnected wikipedia.de because one page had the name of a hacker that his family didn't want anyone to know.

I'm not sure if I find that hilarious or disturbing.

I declare it hilasturbing, the great new word from the good people at Webster.

sigh....you know what? Fuck the children.

Until Moral Guardians can find proof that looking at porn does turn them into mini-rapists, they should go back to their little holes and take care of their own damn kids.

edited 18th Feb '11 10:00:02 PM by Signed

Fuck the children

No, see, that's what they're trying to stop

^ BURN! XD

I accidentally the internet?

Quite frankly, I prefer child pornography running rampant on the net to all this maternalistic, censorious, do-gooder horseshit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRO-M4XyAbM

Just replace Esmeralda with "The Internet" and imagine the Hellfire as Forum Flame Wars, and you've got the idea of what most Moral Guardians see the internet as.

So who wants to arm up and start the revolution. This behavior is a bad sign.

Oh yeah, I bet theyre shaking at the thought of Internet forum users uniting against them.

Egypts' leaders did. And they were running an authoritarian dictatorship.

edited 19th Feb '11 7:30:04 PM by deathjavu

Yeah, but, you know, THATS something to revolt against. This is... mildy inconvenient at worst. I dont like it, but its not something Im willing to riot over.

I think the whole point is the more freedoms that get taken, the harder it is to prevent others from being taken.

So yeah, to me this does seem like something worth getting upset about.

Indeed it is something to get upset about. They have demonstrated that they do not care for rights anymore. I am waiting to see what Obama does with patriot act. It has landed on his desk and there may be some net related spying clauses buried in it. Hopefully he does the right thing and axes it.

Egypts' leaders did.

And HBGary didn't, and look what happened to them

They took their porn man, that's not cool. Give them back their porn.

Im just saying, lets save our outrage until they start shutting down sites that arent just porn, like political blogs and stuff. THEN we can start worrying.

... what if it's political porn?

Hey, if you can find a politician you want to stick your dick in, be my guest.