[meadsjn]

The comments on the Computerworld site are running totally against APEX. Some of the comments contain additional information about the parties involved and the contract document at issue.

[SlowBoat407]

I wonder when they’re going to start proceedings to shut down conservative forums.

[KoRn]

May be of interest.

[Psycho_Bunny]

The "Honorable" Jerk is way out of bounds on this.

Imagine a judge shutting down FR for one disputed thread.

[Nervous Tick]

FWIW, http://www.guestworkerfraud.com is still up. The other two are down.

[montag813]

Outrageous violation of civil liberties. GoDaddy and Comcast should refuse the judge’s order and immediately appeal.

[jacknhoo]

Excerpt:
“Apex and Judge P. Hurley can pry my freedom of speech from my cold, dead hands.”

Hear, hear!

[ntmxx]

Not sure what this judge believes is the issue here, although from what I briefly read on the site, either the judge is afraid of free speech, truth, and facts or he’s a Red Diaper Doper Baby protecting the gates to hell from being offended. Liberalism is a Mental Disorder!

[TheCipher]

The owner of the site should just move it to a server in Asia. F@#$ the judge. He has no jurisdiction there. !!!!

[grey_whiskers]

Billybob,

Might this action break the (usual) absolute immunity of the judge, on the grounds that knowingly violating a Constitutional Right (which has been established as such in the Federal District in which the Court resides) is by definition a non-judicial act...?

I figure the 1st Amendment is fairly well established.

And as a layperson I guess the "narrowly tailored" thing fails as well.

Cheers!

[CORedneck]

I work tech support for a well known company. The software our customers use requires the operating system to meet certain standards on settings before the software is installed.

Now the most frustrating part of the job is dealing with the H1B's who don't know how to do their job and the Indian's over in Bangalore. They are rude, don't listen and insist on running their software in a certain way that it was not intended and when it fails, they get all mad and demand management to call them.

These people are not paid much and then they have the executives breath down their necks and will escalate on a "dime". These executives are so clueless or are very malicious. Run their companies into the ground for a few bucks, take value from the shareholders all for their greed. The old saying is "you get what you pay for".

It is time that shareholders vote out all buffoons who support executives that run companies into the ground and replace with leadership who put the company first, the shareholders. Personally, when I get stock proxy statements, I always vote against executive bonus plans.

Now to change tangent, there was something mentioned that the financial class dislikes the engineering class, very true. One company I worked for almost twenty years ago, the executives were financial/marketing. Our IT department was strangled by petty rules. We had to dress formally even though we made no public contact and the dress code even applied on weekends. Pay was not that good either. You can sense that our department was barely tolerated by management.

[ClayinVA]

Interesting that the Programmer’s Guild people was involved and they got such a nasty court order. Normally they can bring in a lot of horsepower on things like this. Also, it is not on Slashdot or Groklaw yet.

[Publius6961]

Since when does a County Superior Court judge rule on what is entirely a Constitutional issue?

I don't believe this story!

[familyop]

So they didn’t think to use foreign registrars and servers? What kind of eye-tee people are they, anyway? ;-)

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Sounds like more Liberal Globalism run amok....the H1-B Visa program is a fraud and a scam...a lot of them are used for non-tech jobs. And displacing US workers is never good in the long run.

H1-B Visa is more of that Economic Anti-Americanism....along with Free Trade, Open Borders, Illegal Aliens (and Amnesty)

[Wuli]

It would seem on the surface that the judge’s actions should be viewed as hasty, in the form of pronouncing the particular websites as “guilty” merely on the accusations, and legal arguments of the plaintiffs, without the full case having been heard, to determine any valid claims and assess any particular remedies.

Even then, “libel” and such are “civil” offenses and even if the plaintiffs won their arguments, doing so would allow them to go after the defendants for (a) removal of “offending” material, (b) consent agreements to not publish such material in the future and damages for the past offenses. In none of those things should a state judge find grounds or authority to simply, judicially demand the websites be “taken off the air”.

The websites and their web-hosting service companies should deny the judge’s order, and force his ruling into review by higher courts.

[moehoward]

“But he said the issue goes well beyond the agreement and involves threatening and racist comments against company officials, as well as ongoing allegations that it is engaging in illegal activities. “Apex has an outstanding reputation in the information technology field,” he said.”

Uh huh.
So. I’m guessing a whistleblower leaked some very telling docs. Which pissed off some other people, that said bad things about Apex.

“Apex said it “has had three consultants refuse to report for employment” as a result postings, according to legal documents.”

Gone into hiding eh?