I recall that as well, quick Google search turned up these two hits, none that I had read at the time, but same story, different vendor: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/04/06/seismologist-was-forced-to-remove-italy-earthquake-warning-from-the-internet/ http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/04/06/scientist-smackdown-did-a-seismologist-accurately-predict-the-italian-quake/

This is a problem in how people think "don't have an online presence to avoid these problems". In principle, it would be great, but principle is little more than that. You have a prime example of why you need a greater online presence. This one little issue mirrored across the web is amplified by the notable lack of other information about you. You should make a stronger web presence where you put in the information you want people to see, and over time, this will drown out the other information. Just make sure you are not a douche/troll/jacka$$/etc, contribute to the web, and that is what people will find.

http://modxcms.com/ is the light and all that is good and righteous in the world. can you tell i'm slightly biased?

Are they kidding? 70% and 0.3 % false positives? I employ a simple GreyList which catches 90% of spam and 0 false positives short of a misconfigured sending email server that does not adhere to RFC. Couple this with user-configured Spam Assassin, and my clients see maybe 1 (generally 0) spam email in their inbox a day, with around 10-20 ending up in the spam due to SA. This is down from hundreds in the spam folder and 20-25 in the Inbox before implementing this solution. At least if we're going to pretend something is newsworthy, make it better than what already exists.

Read the last article regarding the bill. It clearly states that tax dollars are NOT used, so TW is NOT complaining about tax dollars being used. The money to run this system comes from the subscriptions people pay into it. So more likely, they can and TW is out to remove them because it undermines their profit margin.