Court orders three H-1B sites disabled

www.computerworld.com ^ | December 28, 2009 02:41 PM ET | Patrick Thibodeau

[meadsjn]

Computerworld - A New Jersey judge has ordered the shutdown of three H-1B opposition Web sites and seeks information about the identity of anonymous posters.

On Dec. 23, Middlesex County Superior Court Judge James Hurley ordered firms that register domains and provide hosting services -- GoDaddy Inc., Network Solutions, Comcast Cable Communications Inc. and DiscountASP.Net, to disable the three sites, ITgrunt.com, Endh1b.com, and Guestworkerfraud.com. Facebook Inc. was also ordered to disable ITgrunt's Facebook page.

[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.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Yep

[jacknhoo]

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

Hear, hear!

[VicVega]

Is it the truth the Judge is bothered by? J

Just a posting I saw on the front page.

***Someone sent us this:

“IF YOU CROSS THE NORTH KOREAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU GET 12 YEARS HARD LABOR.

IF YOU CROSS THE IRANIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU ARE DETAINED INDEFINITELY.

IF YOU CROSS THE AFGHAN BORDER, YOU GET SHOT.

BUT, IF YOU CROSS THE U.S. BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU GET A DRIVERS LICENSE, SOCIAL SECURITY CARD, WELFARE, FOOD STAMPS, AND FREE HEALTH CARE”.****

[eyeamok]

either defy the lawyer in a dress or start a new site DEDICATED to Tyrannical Judges that cannot read the Constitution for what it actually SAYS.

[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!

[montag813]

either defy the lawyer in a dress or start a new site DEDICATED to Tyrannical Judges that cannot read the Constitution for what it actually SAYS.

I have used GoDaddy and NetSol i the past. GoDaddy's automatic bend-over is frightening. Is there a registrar/hosting co. somewhere who refuses to obey such rulings?

[meadsjn]

Not sure what this judge believes is the issue here,

APEX claimed it was harmed when one of their H1B slaves from India posted a copy of their contract that required the contractor pay APEX $35,000 if the contractor were to leave APEX, or leave a contract job, or a commit any of a long list of other offenses that APEX deemed offensive.

APEX wanted the identity of the contract employee that posted the contract and it wanted the anti-H1B websites shut down.

Disclaimer: I'm siding with all the people who know the H1B program is totally fraudulent and want it totally abolished.

[centurion316]

So, how much money has APEX given to this slimey judge?

[TheCipher]

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

[ClayinVA]

It is a New Jeresy State Court Judge, of course he is an idiot. EFF and the ACLU will coming riding in a minute and there will be an appeal. I am almost to the point that there should be an Internet Court to keep things away from idiots in black robes without a clue.

[meadsjn]

So, how much money has APEX given to this slimey judge?

Don't know that, but I'd guess a couple trillion dollars per year go to India and Indian firms with offices here that have displaced American IT jobs with their slave labor.

[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.