On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In recent news there have been two cases of DNS registrars being 'ordered' > to take down domain names and lock them against transfer. The city of London > police case is well known. There is also a Pharmacy industry group asserting > the 'right' to take down sites without a court order or any form of due > process. this has been going on for ~5+ years now, DHS/ICE asserts this sort of authority almost daily on com/net (at least)... and has gotten into the press several times for 'bad' takedowns. (there was a rather loud incident with: Rojadirecta.org in 2001) I don't quite understand how the above 2 examples are any different, it'd be nice if gov'ts would stop asserting this sort of control method :( especially since it's not particularly effective at stopping bad actors. -chris