by OregonDOT
ICE Finally Admits It Totally Screwed Up; Next Time, Perhaps It’ll Try Due Process
[Via Techdirt]
While the folks at Homeland Security refused to even admit that they had totally screwed up and seized a domain with 84,000 (mostly legal) websites last week, apparently someone at Homeland Security finally realized that the press wasn’t going to keep accepting them refusing to answer questions about it. So, it’s finally come clean and admitted they seized all of mooo.com, despite the vast majority of it being legal.
I would think that mooo.com’s operator has an incredibly strong legal case against Homeland Security if he decides to bring it.
That said, Homeland Security’s statement on the matter is pretty (unintentionally) funny in that it doesn’t seem to apologize for this blatant First Amendment violation, nor the lack of due process, but does say that authorities are “reviewing” what happened to avoid future mistakes. Oh really? Here’s a simple suggestion:
Try some due process.
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I wonder if they sent an apology to the websites. Because every one of those sites got smeared with the ‘child pornography’ label due to this ill-advised action.
The government is not supposed to take ‘property’ without due process. Yet that is what our immigration officials have been doing. In this case, they ‘stole’ the websites of 84,000 by mistake, or so they say.
And we are supposed to trust them when they say they will review their procedures.
They have already demonstrated that they cannot be trusted to get it right. Yet they still are going forward. I guess it demonstrates just how beholden our government is to its corporate masters since all of this is being housed under the excuse of music/video piracy.
So, to fight the groups that are stealing music, ICE is stealing websites.
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