Senator Wyden Asks WTF Is Up With Homeland Security Domain Seizures

TorrentFreak ^ | 2/3/2011 | Ernesto

[Smogger]

For those that haven't been keeping track Zero's DOJ, ICE, and Homeland Security have been seizing the domain names without notice or due process of websites who only "crime" has been to link to other websites that possibly contain infringing material. With such a low standard of proof, don't be surprised to see this one day when come to FreeRepublic and see this:

[Smogger]

See also:

U.S. Seizes Sports Streaming Sites in “Super Bowl Crackdown”

[killermosquito]

Follow the money. Determine how it benefits Google, NBC, GE, Soros, etc. and you’ll know why they are doing it.

[snowrip]

Paging Senator Issa.

[Smogger]

Well it’s obviously a payback to his Hollywood buddies. Good think overreaching anti-First Amendment Bush isn’t running things.

[savedbygrace]

Seize first, trial later, maybe.

[Surrounded_too]

Diabolical

[pallis]

This nation won’t be free again until this country rids itself of fascist police organizations that are above the law and the Constitution. To get to there, we will have to rid ourselves of the politicians who keep funding them. Conservative politicians need to get off the federal band wagon, and get back to looking after the liberties of their constituents.

[mazda77]

Rep. Issa. He is a congressman, not a Senator.

[Luke21]

ATDHE is no more. Was a good site.

[April Lexington]

I'm thinking Egypt style street riots in the USA if these communists are not turned out of office in 2012. We cannot let our freedom die at the hands of the corrupt few while the majority of our “countrymen” are glued to the boob tube watching American Idol. SOMEONE has to run this place, and... it might just as well be us rather than the communists...

[snowrip]

I was on the phone when I typed that and looked up to see the mistake as I hit the “Post” button. D’oh!

I’ve dreamed of an edit feature on this site.

[Luke21]

Found it.

http://atdhenet.tv/

They just moved the thing.

[Straight Vermonter]

Freepmail me and I’ll tell you where you can still find it.

[pallis]

"I'm thinking Egypt style street riots..."

It may come to that someday, but I'm thinking more towards electing conservatives who aren't afraid of doing the right thing. There is no reason why we can't have a non establishment, conservative president, complete with a conservative House and Senate after 2012. The political odds are in our favor.

[PieterCasparzen]

I don’t get it. When Repubs get in these practices are not redesigned to be compliant with the Constitution and a little thing called due process. I mean, when you’re elected, this is “first day executive order” stuff. With a simple stroke of the pen, you’d have NOTHING happen like this without due process. A very simple order from the top - only thing is instead of enlarging gov’t power it would be putting it back in it’s Constitutional place.
The only time “executive authority” is appropriate is when it comes to the ultimate safety of the nation, for example, when a billion people want to annihilate the nation. Yes, in that case you can keep genocidal maniacs at gitmo, that’s is appropriate.

[Smogger]

You didn’t hear? Preventing linking to sites that stream the SuperBowl live.. er.. sorry I mean “The Big Game” is a national emergency requiring broad police powers.

I hope they don’t shut us down for saying the work Super..doh!

[tacticalogic]

In addition, Senator Wyden asks the following.

Did he actually believe that crap about "transparency", and expect to get a straight answer?

[databoss]

Memo to Janet N.

I think WWW.freerepublic.com might be harboring free speech please seize that domain name forthwith.

Signed: Keith Overbite and Tingles

[kinghorse]

They may take our English Premier League live feed but they’ll never take our freedom!!!

[mojitojoe]

I’m thinking Egypt style street riots in the USA if these communists are not turned out of office in 2012
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We met several friends for lunch today and the conversation was mostly Egypt and politics. Someone asked if Americans did what they are doing in Egypt, would the government not turn their weapons on them? Would they allow us to do what they are doing in Egypt? The answer is hell no.
Yet Shep Smith calls anyone that is on the side of the government in Egypt, thugs and murders. I doubt he would say the same if it happened here and citizens were mowed down.

[Blood of Tyrants]

WTH is he asking for? Dictators don’t answer to mere elected officials!

[mazda77]

You and me both, brother, you and me both. There are even times I need an edit button for my mouth as well! Yikes.

Be well

[TigersEye]

We needed another national security agency to protect us from websites that stream sports events?

[Munz]

Funny that ICE is involved in this. It should be the FBI period .. ICE should have nothing to do with it.

[The Comedian]

Yet Shep Smith calls anyone that is on the side of the government in Egypt, thugs and murders. I doubt he would say the same if it happened here and citizens were mowed down

I would consider it a bargain if we could:

A) Let a blue city like Chicago or Detroit burn to the ground in exchange for...

B) ...the opportunity to kick Shep in the head 10 times.

Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.

[The Comedian]

And btw, if DNS is ever interfered with (and I'm sure it will be), here's how you get to FR minus the domain name and any DNS support:

http://209.157.64.200

Today is a good day to die.
I didn't say for whom.

[charlie72]

We need to contact Roger Ailes at Fox News about Shep Smith. He needs to report, forget analysis.

[PieterCasparzen]

Yet Shep Smith calls anyone that is on the side of the government in Egypt, thugs and murders. I doubt he would say the same if it happened here and citizens were mowed down

Shep just reads the teleprompter if that's going on, unless he's going to bail.

IMHO... We should bear in mind that the group that would riot first in the U.S. is the left-wing, as they already have. Conservatives, by definition, don't want to destroy the cities and towns they live in. And for the most part, they realize that acts of terrorism cause acceptance of one's views, only a little fear at best.

If large riots broke out in a small town or city, it would just be viewed as a tragedy and the town will rebuild they way towns did in the 1960's. If they occur in several major cities and get to the point where the cities and their suburbs are unable to get food and have basic security, as is happening in Egypt, national guard units would be called in. The "good" population would insist on doing whatever is necessary to suppress, and if this was not possible or not ordered by the government, local "good" armed citizens, perhaps half the population, would naturally be driven to form citizen militias. There would be strong affinity, even family ties of the militias to the military and police. The national guards, other military and police would be allied with these "good" citizen militia contingents as that would constitute field expediency. The worse the situation deteriorated, the more elected officials would find it impossible to deny the will of the "good" people. The "patriot" forces would simply do what was necessary to ensure proper decision-making, justice and ultimately, target selection. That's why the commuzzies are dreaming when they think they are going to eventually do away with our American principles. Imagine trying to strong arm 50 million people with guns - many veterans - in every city, suburb and farmhouse across the country.

Long story short, good guys won't shoot good guys under orders from someone else for very long. That's why elections are how they are trying to destroy the Constitution, which simply requires us to wake up everyone we meet to reality so they vote.

[PieterCasparzen]

oops ! acts of terrorism Don’t cause acceptance...

That was not a freudian typo !

[loungitude]

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[loungitude]

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[sergeantdave]

This is the message I’m getting:

NOTICE: ATDHE.NET was shut down today. We will try anything we can to bring the site back. If you want to continue accessing site please bookmark www.atdhenet.tv.

[Joe 6-pack]

"He is a congressman, not a Senator."

You mean a Representative. All Senators are congressmen.

[reformedliberal]

I have this link stashed in a mailbox within Eudora. When I run the cursor over the link, w/o clicking, I get a prompt which states that “This is a numerical IP address. Most legitimate sites use names, not numerical addresses.”

I find Eudora’s desire to protect its users to be touching.

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[MWestMom]

Thank you.

[mojitojoe]

Amen!

[ElkGroveDan]

Makes me think FreeRepublic should have contingencies for multiple alternate and mirrored domains.

[1010RD]

Obama’s Praetorian Guard.

[Rome2000]

DOJ,NIPR, and HSI.

The three stooges look like geniuses compared to this bunch.

[Rome2000]

Great, but the real concern is when it hits the fan, where will Shep get his lipstick?

[Redcloak]

I’m a bit confused on one point: What bearing does IP enforcement have on homeland security? Are we worried that Al Qaeda is pirating DVDs?

[SideoutFred]

I may not like how they went about it, but I applaud the move to shut down those sites. They were pirating sports and television feeds, stealing...no other way to put it.

[Batman11]

Ping

[ratsreek]

Issa is in the House, not the Senate.

[April Lexington]

Would they allow us to do what they are doing in Egypt?

A free American people don't need no steekin permit to protest our government.

[socialism_stinX]

I think the major league sports leagues are preparing for paid streaming video services over the internet. If I recall correctly, Major League Baseball already has a subscription service to watch any game live for a full season at quite a reasonable price. So I expect that’s where this is going and probably within two years you’ll be able to watch all NFL games with relatively low-quality video on your computer at a low cost on NFL.com. I think they’ll keep the video resolution at a low level so as not to compete directly with HD video on the networks and by subscription from DirecTV.

I think that’s what this is all about: protecting the future revenue of sports leagues from streaming video. But you have to wonder what’s next. As far as I know, sports bars have been picking up satellite broadcasts of major league sports for decades without paying a dime to anyone. Is DHS going to show up at your local sports bar and shut the place down for illegally using satellite dishes to pick up all the games on Sunday? This is starting to go too far. There are enough laws on the federal books to make everyone in America a law-breaker of some kind. DHS has to use sound judgement about which laws really need to be actively enforced.

[apoliticalone]

This nation won’t be free again until this country rids itself of fascist police organizations that are above the law and the Constitution. To get to there, we will have to rid ourselves of the politicians who keep funding them. Conservative politicians need to get off the federal band wagon, and get back to looking after the liberties of their constituents.

I agree. "Due process" has become only words on a piece of paper. These fascists are running ramshod over our rights and liberties. Now Lieberman and Obama want to be able to shutdown the internet when they deem it necessary just like Mubarak did in Egypt.

[Soothesayer9]

More power to them! Here is to hoping they far outnumber the “policing” feds.