[x-pubpol] US: Feds Falsely Censor Popular Blog For Over A Year, Deny All Due Process, Hide All Details...

[Joly MacFie]

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111208/08225217010/breaking-news-feds-falsely-censor-popular-blog-over-year-deny-all-due-process-hide-all-details.shtml


Imagine if the US government, with no notice or warning, raided a small but
popular magazine's offices over a Thanksgiving weekend, seized the
company's printing presses, and told the world that the magazine was a
criminal enterprise with a giant banner on their building. Then imagine
that it never arrested anyone, never let a trial happen, and filed
everything about the case under seal, not even letting the magazine's
lawyers talk to the judge presiding over the case. And it continued to deny
any due process at all for *over a year*, before finally just handing
everything back to the magazine and pretending nothing happened. I expect
most people would be outraged. I expect that nearly all of you would say
that's a classic case of prior restraint, a massive First Amendment
violation, and exactly the kind of thing that does not, or should not,
happen in the United States.

But, in a story that's been in the making for over a year, and which we're
exposing to the public for the first time now, this is *exactly* the
scenario that has played out over the past year -- with the only difference
being that, rather than "a printing press" and a "magazine," the story
involved "a domain" and a "blog."

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