Oops! Dept. of Homeland Security Shuts down 84,000 sites!

I see it this way. The porn site is a landlord and also rents out rooms to non-porn sites. The government shuts down the porn business, thereby affecting his tenants, and cutting the porn site's income. It's the lesser of two evils.

Please read the article again. Those sites wrongly affected had absolutely no connection with the "landlord", as you put it. But I admire your attempt to justify the DHS incompetence.

"Last night on Friday February 11th at around 9:30 PM PST mooo.com (the most popular shared domain at afraid.org) was suspended at the registrar level," the official FreeDNS statement statement read. "freedns.afraid.org has never allowed this type of abuse of its DNS service."

The DOJ and DHS have not yet made a statement about these claims, and it is unclear what exactly happened to cause them to shut the entire domain down at this time.

Link to above quote: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/17/sites-shut-down_n_824145.html

I can now say that I have been to Huffington Post.

Last month, in a bold and daring move, ICE seized an ISP that provided streaming content (the Superbowl).

Homeland Security is the most insidious bureau ever created. Everything that a person does falls under the "national security" blanket. Very highly centralized government. Big government. They have their fingers in every pie. Most of which has absolutely nothing to do with national security.

MB: I agree!! And their divisions don't talk to each other, nor does DHS promote communication between intelligence-gathering entities (FBI, DIA, DoD, etc.) And it seems that they gather more and more power as each month goes by. One of the major things that government decided would help after 9-11...a hair-trigger reaction by our government that doesn't seem as if it has helped the way we were told it would.

yep - 84,000 sites and businesses shut down for three days to score 10 sites. Wow. What a victory. Note that my eyes are rolling. Nice assumptions that all of those were blogs. You DO realize a lot of people run businesses out of blogs - honest, legit businesses of all sorts.

Wouldn't hold my breath for those folks to recoup their lost revenue for those three days; but it is indicative of high handed crap that we're all supposed to just shut up and accept because it's "for the national security". Bullcrap.

Since when is it in homeland security's pervue to be dealing with sexual predators anyway? How are these pervs threats to our overall national security? Oh wait, they aren't. When's the last time you heard of a child molester threatening to blow up a federal building?

It is over reaching and incompetence, something we should all pay attention to.

I'm not even sure the 10 have actually been proven to be porn sites. But in any event, I think it is totally wrong to shut down, and brand as porn sites, 84,000 sites to get 10.

IMO, this is government totally out of control.

major bean wrote: Homeland Security is the most insidious bureau ever created. Everything that a person does falls under the "national security" blanket. Very highly centralized government. Big government. They have their fingers in every pie. Most of which has absolutely nothing to do with national security.

I agree with you on that aspect. You can thank George W. Bush for the new cabinet-level layer of bureaucracy. DHS also constitutes the most diverse merger of federal functions and responsibilities, incorporating 22 government agencies into a single organization.

OK. The very good arguments against this have caused me to change my mind. Mr. Bean would call it "wafting."

I may be the only person on here who admits to changing their mind on anything, based on a discussion of the issues.

I wonder if we're stuck with the Dept. of Homeland Security from now on? Has a cabinet position ever been eliminated in the federal government, in its entire history?

kresspin, you are large of mind and spirit for your change of stance. My headdress is off to you!