Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit Discussion
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Network Solutions is a company of wimps.
A web site, fitnathemovie.com, was registered through Network Solutions, but Network Solutions blocked access to the web site before there could even be a real web site uploaded onto the net. Why? Network Solutions apparently has a group of employees who are in the position of guessing what a web site might say in the future, and then recommending censorship of the site if they suspect that this future content might cause “unrest”.
The idea is that because fitnathemovie.com had the potential, in the future, to publish anti-Islam material, it would be best just to not allow anybody anywhere in the world to see the site, out of fear that Muslims somewhere, sometime, might get offended, and then might be unrestful.
According to the Washington Post, “a company spokeswoman said Sunday evening that Network Solutions decided to pull the plug on it due to the potential unrest that could follow if Wilders followed through on his pledge to post his film on the site.”
COULD lead to POTENTIAL unrest? Oh, what a low standard for running and hiding under the table! What a sad decline there has been in Silicon Valley culture, now that Internet companies are wetting their pants in fear over the possibility that people speaking their minds on the Internet might lead to unrest.
They’re worries about potential unrest? Since when is the Internet for resting? Last I checked, AfternoonNap.com is not the most popular web site around.
What’s next? Is Network Solutions going to start refusing to host anti-Christian web sites? Refuse to allow anti-Buddhist domain names to be registered? Block WhoIs information for anti-Hindu sites?
Oh, look! At Metro, there’s an article that claims that Jesus Christ has indeed risen again… with his head reincarnated as a dog’s anus. Come on, Network Solutions! Aren’t you going to censor that? Aren’t you going to smack that down?
Why stop at religion, Network Solutions? Why not ban web sites critical of John McCain? Political arguments can lead to unrest, right? Well, if potential unrest is now the criterion for censorship by Network Solutions, then all political web sites must go!
The action of Network Solutions reminds me of nothing so much as the action of the government of China to refuse access to the web sites that have content it doesn’t approve of.
I hereby call upon Network Solutions to change the title of W. Roy Dunbar, its CEO, to General Secretary.
Censor THIS, Network Solutions.
I don’t know if I support the ideas that the people behind fitnathemovie.com were planning on publishing. But then, I can’t know that, given that those ideas were never allowed to get online.
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March 24th, 2008 at 9:50 am
I wonder if they would block the registration of domains like “networksolutionssucks.com”
I don’t know how this company stays in business. They charge many many times more than any other domain registrar. Also, did you know that if you use network solutions WHOIS page to check if a domain has been registered, they “lock” any available domain instantly so that it can be registered through network solutions ONLY? And then there are those letters they send to domain owners that look like a bill. Lots of people pay them, unknowingly transferring their registration to network solutions. All around a very crappy company.
March 24th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
I used one of those searches, don’t remember what company, to check for a domain name I was interested in. It wasn’t in use. Now a few months later I see it has a squatter with an Australian registration–someone with thousands and thousands of websites–and is for sale for $1000. One company claims if you do a domain check through them they will not register the name to anyone else for the next 4 days. I suspect they are the ones themselves who are using the domain check to get domain names to squat.
I suppose GoDaddy is about the cheapest?
March 25th, 2008 at 7:29 am
I use 1and1 and I’m quite satisfied with them.
March 25th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Be aware that you cannot use 1and1 if you are on satellite internet. Satellite uses a “proxy speedup” not compatible with maintaining a 1and1 web page.
March 28th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
[…] seen Fitna, the little European anti-Islamic movie, for a simple reason. It’s been banned. Network Solutions refuses to allow people to access the web site that was going to show the film. YouTube has censored the video as […]
March 29th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
[…] Network Solutions got timid, and acted to censor a web site that it says would have made Muslims feel upset, blocking access to […]
March 29th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
[…] Network Solutions has refused to allow anyone to visit the web site developed for the distribution of the Fitna movie. YouTube, and now LiveLeak, have decided to censor anyone who tries to post part of the Fitna movie, because they’re afraid of the threats of Muslim extremists. […]