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Save this online in Del.icio.us. [?] Vote For this PostThats just what a parody site of Joe Volpe's acceptance of child donations asked but was shut down by the CIRA for no apparent reason upon request of Volpe.
Thats correct, youthforvolpe.ca google cache of the site here was shutdown by the CIRA for no apparent reason. Is Canada starting to censor the internet and freedom of speech? Because of a Liberal (the party that brought us the charter) leadership candidate no less?
This censorship is disgusting: parody works are protected by the charter and Volpe isn't a trademark in any way shape or form. It's time for the CIRA to apologize and grow up.
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posted by Andrew @ 8:34 p.m.
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I really doubt there was any juvenile misconduct of the type by the CIRA since they're very smart (many of the board members have respectable backgrounds in internet law and computer science and would be well aware of concepts like net neutrality). However, as the below investigation by Digital Home shows, there appears to have been some politically-motivated misconduct on the part of the registrar for the site.
If this turns out to be the case, this would be one of the only such instances in the history of the internet (a famous instance being the Kazhakstan government shutting down borat.kz, the website of a comedian ridiculing Kazhakstan)
Digital Home is following the story closely, as are Slashdot readers (http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/03/0420254).
Digital Home investigation:
http://www.digitalhomecanada.com/content/view/1281/51/
Youth for Volpe website creator denies CIRA statement
Friday, 02 June 2006
Earlier today Digital Home Canada was informed that the registrar of the YouthForVolpe.ca website had CIRA suspend the website domain because the website creator would not provide valid Canadian contact information.
Digital Home Canada contacted the creator of the website who says that interpretation is false.
In several emails to Digital Home, the website creator claims the registrar, Canadian Domain Name Services took down the youthforvolpe.ca website without any warning.
When the website creator discovered the site had been removed, an email was sent to the registrar asking why the actions were taken. The registrar advised the site creator that it had violated Article 3.1 Paragraph (h) (i) and (ii) of CIRA Policies which allow CIRA to suspend a domain name. The rules say CIRA may suspend a domain if the site is directly or indirectly, defaming or contributing to the defamation of any other Person or unlawfully discriminating or contributing to the unlawful discrimination of any other Person.
The rationale provided by the registrar contradicts the rationale put forth in a statement released earlier today by CIRA which stated "The registrar advised CIRA that it made this request because its registrant would not provide valid Canadian contact information."
The website creator asserts that he was never asked by Canadian Domain Name Services to provide valid Canadian contact information and that the site was shutdown unilaterally.
Digital Home has attempted to contact Canadian Domain Name Services and CIRA to verify what we have been told but have received no response.
We will update this story as we learn more.
Volpe's a clown.
Even Liberals aren't dense enough to choose that guy to be their leader. He'll be off on the first ballot, if he makes it that far, and Canada will be better off for not having him.
So the site was censored on a technicality. Maybe Volpe's people contacted the registrar and not CIRA.
It's rather doubtful, to me personally at any rate, that they just happened to take an interest in this particular website.
Is there a standard procedure, some time after a site is published, where the registrar/CIRA checks these things out?
I get the feeling someone found a little-known rule and realized it would be better for Public Relations to nail the website on that, rather than some official complaint that comes across like Volpe can't take a joke.
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