US Gov't shuts down 84,000 websites by mistake

[VirusType2]

The US Government has yet again shuttered several domain names this week. The Department of Justice and Homeland Security’s ICE office proudly announced that they had seized domains related to counterfeit goods and child pornography. What they failed to mention, however, is that one of the targeted domains belongs to a free DNS provider, and that 84,000 websites were wrongfully accused of links to child pornography crimes.

As part of “Operation Save Our Children” ICE’s Cyber Crimes Center has again seized several domain names, but not without making a huge error. Last Friday, thousands of site owners were surprised by a rather worrying banner that was placed on their domain.

“Advertisement, distribution, transportation, receipt, and possession of child pornography constitute federal crimes that carry penalties for first time offenders of up to 30 years in federal prison, a $250,000 fine, forfeiture and restitution,” was the worrying message they read on their websites.

Full article: http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-shuts-down-84000-websites-by-mistake-110216/

Wow, total ****ing fail there. Nice going, helping out the small businesses by shutting them down and warning all visitors that they have been trafficking child pornography.

****ing fail, off the scale.

 

[Raziaar]

Dumb shits.

 

[Dead Phil]

you'd think that they would have thought this over before actually taking action

 

[VirusType2]

The Internet "kill switch" has been removed from legislation in the United States, but civil rights activists say nothing's changed.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/comput...-revised-still-angers-civil-rights-activists/


UK tests the ICEwater: http://www.zeropaid.com/news/92625/uk-debates-site-seizure-campaigns-of-its-own/

 

[Omnomnick]

We're next! Head for the hills!

 

[Dead Phil]

NOT THE HILLS!!!

 

[Shem]

What a fail.

 

[Krynn72]

SHUT THE **** UP WITH THE GOD DAMN FAIL ALREADY.

But yeah, this is stupid and Operation Save Our Children is a hilarious name and Virus is making a shit ton of threads all of the sudden.

 

[Lucid]

EPIC fail!!!!!1

 

[VirusType2]

SHUT THE **** UP WITH THE GOD DAMN FAIL ALREADY.

But yeah, this is stupid and Operation Save Our Children is a hilarious name and Virus is making a shit ton of threads all of the sudden.

I laughed. Sorry. I actually haven't had internet for about 12 hours but I had those tabs open. So I had 12 hours to read them, and now I'm stuffing them down your throat at break-neck speed.

 

[Remus]

I think Stern is using Virustype2's account.