Hollywood Lawyers Shut Down Anti-Hollywood Website! Free Speech Alert!!

[jonalvy44]

We need to show William Morris what it means to upset the American public!! Contact them to share your feelings!

The William Morris Agency has been successful in silencing the American Public with their efforts to close down the website

BoycottHollywood

If the site is down here is the cached page

http://www.hollywoodhalfwits.com/boycott_hollywood.htm

WMA put pressure to Dotster through their Attorneys (Rintala, Smoot, Jaenicke, & Rees LLP in Los Angeles, CA) to close down the website, which consisted of the postings of every day American Citizens expressing their feelings and opinions about Liberal Hollywood. The full info is posted on the boycott-hollywood.us website which will go down permanently in 24-48 hours.

This is clearly an infringment of our 1st Admendment rights of free speech and is outrageous and unforgivable on the part of WMA.

We must contact these people and share our outrage! Remember when Martin Sheen put out a commercial to inundate Washington DC with calls,faxes, and emails? I guess it's ok for them to do this, but the average American citizen is NOT allowed! I, for one, will keep up the fight! These anti-American Hollywood leftists will not see a penny of my money ever again!

Emails for WMA:

admin@wma.com; bgd@wma.com; eseastrand@wma.com; jmb@wma.com; jec@wma.com; jornstein@wma.com; jgiaime@wma.com; mguss@wma.com; mai@wma.com; rem@wma.com; shg@wma.com; tc@wma.com

My email to them:

Gentleman:

I am outraged at your actions towards the webite of

http://www.boycott-hollywood.us

I hope you are pleased with yourselves. This action, this act of suppression of Free Speech will backfire on you and your clients that chose to speak out against their country. We will not be silenced and these actors will not see a penny of our money. You may shut down one website, but there are many more of the same. Furthermore, American patriots like myself will continue to spread the word. Those listed on the NION and Win Without War statements, along with those actively participating in anti-war rallies, etc. are in fact, boycotted. You've seen the efforts carried forth by American patriots vs. French and German goods and Hollywood will feel the same.

Shame on you and your organization!

Phone number for the Attornys Office;

1-310-203-0935

I will be calling them today as well!

Jon Alvarez Syracuse, NY

[Dante3]

BUMP!

[Labyrinthos]

This is clearly an infringment of our 1st Admendment rights of free speech...

Not really, because the First Amendment only prohibits federal, State, and local government and their political subdivisons from interfereing with our right to free speech. Private parties can do whatever they please subject only to potential liability under a variety of civil laws that arise not from the U.S. Constitution, but various statutes and the common law.

[Texas Mom]

Would it be safe to assume, websites like Michael Moore and Barbra Strisands are still up and running spewing their hate, right?

[Falcon4.0]

What was the legal argument they used to shut down the website?

[2timothy3.16]

Sounds like a candidate for:
ChristianPatriot.com/us_haters.htm

[jellybean]

What was the legal argument they used to shut down the website?

They cited liable and invasion of privacy. Don't have time right now to cut, paste and format, but here's an active link.

[demlosers]

From Boycott-Hollywood.us:

May 01, 2003
Our own personal wind chill (Follywood) Well, folks - it's been a blast and it's been fun.

Apparently, our domain registrar (namesdirect.com - subsidiary of Dotster.com) have caved to the pressures of the William Morris Agency giant. On April 29, 2003, Dotster.com received a letter from the William Morris Agency in regards to this website. Their complaint accused us of liable and potentially other civil and criminal offenses.

This is another fine example of how Hollywood feels that their opinion and view is the only one that matters. Average citizens are disallowed the free expression of our point of view because they don't like being challenged for their views. I stand firm on the belief that we have done nothing wrong at this website - - The celebrities have expressed their views, and we have responded in kind by expressing our views regarding the thoughts and ideas that they have, publicly, expressed.

Dotster.com has suspended our update information at this domain and have informed us that the DNS information of this domain has been changed and the website will be down within the next 24 hours and our contract with them is now null and void. They are doing this because we did not provide accurate contact information in their public database.

When I explained that the reason we did not provide accurate contact information is because we have received multiple death threats and I did not wish for just anyone to have my personal information - and asked them for suggestions on what to do - Dotster was unmoved. They did not give me the chance to update the information with accurate information and keep the domain. That's not an option - - they are just simply going to shut down our domain - no explanation needed.

Further questioning of Dotster brought me a copy of the letter sent to them by the William Morris Agency and reads as follows:

We, in fact, recieved no such email from the William Morris Agency.

I can say only this - - the fact that we're being shut down because of the William Morris Agency tells me that we truly touched a raw nerve in someone, somewhere. At the very least, it tells me that our message was recieved by the people that it was intended for. The very fact that we cannot express our opinions regarding the views of these stars/celebs shows me, yet again, the double standard that exists in Follywood.

Thank you all for your support at this website - it appears my hands are tied in keeping it open. Dotster will be closing down our site within the next 24-48 hours. I appreciate the hard work that Chris and Reilly have done at this site and appreciate the ongoing and intelligent, provoking discussions held here.

Warm Regards.

[jonalvy44]

from what I read, basically they felt the contact info provided on the site was inaccurate and that the actors felt they were being defamed.

[jonalvy44]

I agree, yet the host web site caved in to this pressure, in effect, shutting him down. It is a case of legal intimidation being used to effectively, shut him up. I will continue onward in my fight...

[Labyrinthos]

What was the legal basis for the intimidation?

[Lady Eileen]

bump

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I wonder what those sharks mean by "threatening?"

[jonalvy44]

WMA put pressure to Dotster (the hosting site) through their Attorneys (Rintala, Smoot, Jaenicke, & Rees LLP in Los Angeles, CA) to close down the website, which consisted of the postings of every day American Citizens expressing their feelings and opinions about Liberal Hollywood. The full info is posted on the boycott-hollywood.us website which will go down permanently in 24-48 hours.

[Labyrinthos]

Looks like the website is down already. For those of us who were unable to access the website, could someone breifly summarize the legal grounds threatened as the basis for shuting the site down.

[jonalvy44]

see #8 of 15 of this thread

[Fixit]

[Bullish]

Shut them down and 50 more will pop up.

The pompous asses in Hollywood are going to get it one way or another.

[jonalvy44]

site is back up...maybe we are having an impact?

BTW:

Hugh Grant's new movie "2 weeks notice" is out now for rental, looks good, guess what? I walked right on past it. He'll get none of my money!

[Happy2BMe]

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