You are 100% incorrect in your understanding of how the DHS is abusing domain name confiscation.
THey are also confiscating domains to websites that simply link to other websites that host pirated copyrighted material, and executing confiscations across international boundaries without authorization of the jurisdictional foreign courts.
freedominion.com.pa links to a website hosting a live tv stream of a US political event, and the claimed copyright owner can then have the USA DHS confiscate freedominion.com.pa domain name in Panama, without going through Panamanian legal system and without recourse for the freedominion.com.pa domain registrants.
This has already happened to a website in Spain that linked to other websites that hosted p2p streams of US live sports telecasts.
It’s a small jump from live sports events to news/political/financial news media when the copyright owners in the sports media case are the same corporations as the major news content providers in the USA.
The case in Spain is in direct violation of the laws of Spain and ICANN rulings.
It will be as simple as registering a thousand troll accounts on any website targeted by political operatives, posting several copyrighted pieces of media, or even external links to pirated copyrighted material, while having the coconspirators at the copyright owners’ request provide screen captures and call up the Federales,... within days FreeRepublic.com or DailyKos.com will disappear forever.
Please read what I posted. I DIDN’T SAY THEY AREN’T DOING THIS. I said the GRAPHIC YOU POSTED is not the one they’re using for the intellectual property copyright material seizures. THAT GRAPHIC will not show up on Free Republic, as you stated it would, unless FR starts selling counterfeit athletic shoes and faux designer hand bags. Is that so hard to understand? Of course they are doing this. Government will push against our freedoms as far as it can, until we push back. They want to control what we know, in order to control what we think. Please read for content and meaning before telling me I am “incorrect in my understanding.” Accuracy, accuracy.