Don't forget to pack the Buck Rogers decoder ring for translating alien messages.

Don't forget to pack the Buck Rogers decoder ring for translating alien messages.

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Company says campaign committee and politics not at play in request to change web hosts.

Last Friday GoDaddy.com sent a notice to the owner of Homelandsecurityus.com informing him that he needed to find a new home for his domain name and web site.

Douglas J. Hagmann, founder of the site, tells his story here. He claims that one of the Obama campaign’s “truth teams” asked Go Daddy to give the site the boot.

Ben Butler, Network Abuse Director at Go Daddy, told Domain Name Wire today that its request to move the site had nothing to do with politics. Here’s the full statement from Butler:

"We did receive complaints about objectionable content on Homelandsecurityus.com, but it was not from a government agency or campaign committee, nor was it political in nature.

As you may already know, we investigate all serious complaints about content reported to violate our terms of service. In this case, we substantiated the complaints and found several examples of content that appeared to violate our Terms of Service.

We don’t speak to specifics due to customer privacy concerns. We can tell you our terms of service prohibit content or activities designed to defame, embarrass, harm, abuse, threaten, slander or harass third-parties. We also don’t allow content to encourage unlawful activities by others, such as hate crimes, terrorism and child pornography. Our terms also prohibit activities that are tortious, vulgar, obscene, invasion of the privacy of a third-party, racially or ethically.

For a complete look at our terms of service, you can visit [here].

It would not be a violation of our terms to disagree with a person or organization’s politics.”

Note: I haven't visited the site so I am going off the story you posted and the story in the OP.

Having also glanced over the website, which looks like your typical angry libertarian conspiracy theory parking place, I would guess that the graphic abortion pictures (which I hadn't viewed firsthand) may have precipitated the takedown notice.

The unfortunate part is that GoDaddy has already been an internet pincushion and rightly accused of being in bed with Washington through the whole SOPA scandal, so the charge is convenient and easily sticks.

It would have helped if GoDaddy had emphasized the objectionable material and downplayed the First Amendment concerns.

Staying out of politics, Fast and Furious is embarrassing for the government, so therefore any site devoted to covering the scandal would violate GoDaddy's ToS?

Note: I haven't visited the site so I am going off the story you posted and the story in the OP.

A political website that contained stinging criticism of the Obama administration and its handling of the Fast and Furious scandal was ordered to be shut down by the Obama campaign’s ‘Truth Team’, according to private investigator Douglas Hagmann, who was told by ISP GoDaddy his site contained information that was “maliciously harmful to individuals in the government.”

Staying out of politics, Fast and Furious is embarrassing for the government, so therefore any site devoted to covering the scandal would violate GoDaddy's ToS?

bUMMER :( I am all mixed up now..

We don’t speak to specifics due to customer privacy concerns. We can tell you our terms of service prohibit content or activities designed to defame, embarrass, harm, abuse, threaten, slander or harass third-parties. We also don’t allow content to encourage unlawful activities by others, such as hate crimes, terrorism and child pornography. Our terms also prohibit activities that are tortious, vulgar, obscene, invasion of the privacy of a third-party, racially or ethically.

CEO, Senior Investigator
Hagmann Investigative Services, Inc.

February 1985 – Present (27 years 5 months) Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

Private investigative agency licensed in Pennsylvania and New York, specializing in the defense of fraudulent workers' compensation and bodily injury claims for insurance companies, third party administrators and law firms.

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Author
Tactical Surveillance

February 2003 – Present (9 years 5 months)

Author of Tactical Surveillance, an investigative text used by accredited universities in the U.S. in their law enforcement related programs. A comprehensive text for licensed investigators, security professionals and law enforcement agencies.

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Founder & Director
Northeast Intelligence Network

October 2001 – Present (10 years 9 months) Erie, Pennsylvania Area

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Co-host
The Hagmann & Hagmann Report

June 2011 – Present (1 year 1 month)

Co-host of a two-hour news and analysis program

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Senior columnist
Canada Free Press

January 2004 – Present (8 years 6 months) Ontario, Canada

Author of news and analysis unreported or under-reported by the main stream media.