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Re: Network Solutions - de facto pre-publication censor
I've dealt with Network systems before and they are difficult and time consuming. As a result, I don't recommend them to my customers who are looking for Domain name services or hosting.
I suspect that Network Solutions "predicted" that the content was going to be objectionable, so took the blank site offline despite the fact that there was no content on it. If the customer had posted some hate-spewing crap, NS should have whacked it immediately and turned the evidence over to the authorities in their jurisdiction for investigation and followup as appropriate. However, nothing had been posted.
I have no use for religious hate and/or bigotry links and content, or for the people who promote or advocate such views. Such crap has no place, and those who promote such drivel in web sites, posts, sig lines etc. only show themselves for the ignorant bigots that they are.
I also don't feel comfortable with hosters, DNS providers or ISPs deciding to cut customers off because they think the customer "might" violate TOS in the future. That will only open the door to pre-emptively blocking legitimate discussion, dissenters, whistleblowers and those who might be opposed to the vendor's political views or legislative proposals.
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