Canadian Domain Registry Pulls Plug on Free Speech

An anonymous reader writes "The staff of a Canadian political candidate bragged today that he had managed to shut down a website critical of his involvement in a fundraising scandal, by having the country's registrar of domains pull the DNS records for the site. Criticism from bloggers and free speech advocates has been negative, and is coming from across the political spectrum."

Framed?

[ackthpt]

Appears scum are easier to frame than honest, upstanding people. Thanks for playing, but hope you and your filth go down in flames, spinning or otherwise.

Shouldn't that read...

[brian0918]

"The staff of a Canadian political candidate bragged today that he had managed to shut down a website critical of his involvement in a fundraising scandal.."

Shouldn't that read, "The former staff..."

Criticism... negative?

[Anonymous Coward]

I guess in Canada criticism can sometimes be positive, eh?

Re:Shouldn't that read...

[ackthpt]

Shouldn't that read, "The former staff..."

Hey now, no stealing tomorrow's headlines...

Mike Hunt?

[Bieeanda]

Is he any relation to Dick Hertz, or the Dover twins, Ben and Eileen?

Re:Apparently he did not even know who owned the..

[SpectreHiro]

The important question is... Will you come to the defense of Mike Hunt? Mike Hunt is clearly in need of help right now, and only the actions of truly altruistic individuals like yourself can make bare the facts of this obviously hairy situation.

Reports have it that some of Mike Hunt's other staff members - namely Mr.s Jack Mehoff and Holden McGroin - are organizing and mobilizing a grass-roots defense. I suspect they'll be tempted to use some dirty tactics, but this is clearly not the time to be hitting below the belt. We must hold ourselves to the highest standards and refuse to sink into the deep, dank, stinky chasm of corruption.

After all, that's what Mike Hunt would expect of us all.

Re:Apparently he did not even know who owned the s

[Lu Xun]

I wonder is Mr. Hunt is an associate of Amanda Hugginkis?

In Soviet Russia...

[talkingpaperclip]

I was going to write an "In Soviet Russia" joke, but all my ideas already worked in their original order.

It's getting worse

[Harmonious Botch]

...at least the cream cheese story had some substance.

Bye, Bye,, Slashdot

[SEWilco]

This commentary seems critical of that politician.
Keep an eye on Slashdot's DNS entries...

Re:apparently I'm right...

[Beryllium Sphere(tm)]

No, it's like calling the fire department and telling them that the newspaper publishing cartoons about your corruption is violating the fire code.

Re:apparently I'm right...

[Kamineko]

Shut up, you fool! You're not allowed to say the word cartoon on a popular news portal! Don't you know what happens?