Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Group challenges arrest for “linking to other websites”

Using powers meant to defeat terrorism:
"The Obama administration's aggressive crackdown on websites accused of child pornography crimes, copyright infringement or selling counterfeit goods is being challenged by an online activist group that says federal authorities 'overreached' by arresting someone for 'nothing more than linking to other websites.'

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested Bryan McCarthy, 32, earlier this month and charged him with one count of copyright infringement."

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Bloggers are great linkers. This is not a good omen for any blogger who might attract disapproval from the Obama administration

More commentary here

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Surprised? This is the result of weak, mindless voters allowing the MSM to convince them to elect an outright Marxist with zero experience at anything as their president. Obviously, the power of the vote is something too important to be left to mindless nitwits who are busy watching TV.