Across the globe, governments have adopted policies of seizing domain names as a way to shut down content they find objectionable. This has become a primary censorship tactic of the United States government (through the Secret Service, Immigrations and Custom Enforcement, DHS, and the Department of Justice, via the FBI and the DEA), and it seems that we have set an example, as the domain seizure tactic has been used by other oppressive countries, such as in the Libyan seizure of vb.ly. Get used to seeing this. Even more worryingly, we've recently seen the United States Secret Service seize a domain of a startup company, JotForm, entirely because of user generated content. If this trend continues, it could mean very bad news for young entrepreneurs looking to build the next YouTube, Facebook, or Google. ..... Read the rest of this article at Gun.io!
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