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[ PRIVACY Forum ] UK Government Is Already Censoring The Global
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Tue Dec 10 12:03:55 2013
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UK Government Is Already Censoring The Global Internet
http://j.mp/19f589b (TechWeek Europe)
"Today, a special police unit can decide that a certain website needs
to disappear from the Internet, and threaten its domain name registrar
into revoking the address "until further notice", without any legal
basis whatsoever. The name of the unit is PIPCU (Police Intellectual
Property Crime Unit) and it has just reported on the success of
Operation Creative - a three month long campaign that resulted in 40
websites accused of copyright infringement shutting down, or at least
moving to a new Web address. None of the administrators of the 40
now-defunct websites, nor their registrars, were served with a court
order."
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