Wired’s Threat Level Blog is carrying a story about the Department of Homeland Security demanding that Mozilla take down an add-on that lets users easily redirect to sites that have been given a take-down notice due to copyright infringement. Maybe censorship is too strong a word, but it certainly appears as such. Mozilla agrees and is requesting a reason for the takedown. The government has yet to respond.
Via WIRED.
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Ole — May 9, 2011
The government demands that a private organization removes a piece of code (information) because it may make the general public able to access more information. Such a demand from the government comes with a threat of executive punishment if not obeyed (up to criminalization or seizure of servers, as the US government has done before).
How is censorship "too strong a word" for that? That is censorship pure and simple.