"A Huffy Canada Shuts Down 'Yes Men'
Stung by a satire at the Copenhagen climate conference, Canada's government has shut down two parody Web sites criticizing the Great White North's glacial policy on global warming.
In the process, however, it has taken down 4,500 other Web sites that had nothing to do with the prank played two weeks ago at the global climate summit.
The two "offending" sites, developed by "Yes Men" pranksters, announced that Canada would reduce greenhouse gas emissions in 2020 40 percent from 1990 levels, and 80 percent by the year 2050.
The "announcement" came as Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government was privately circulating a plan to permit a 165 percent INCREASE in emissions from Alberta's huge, dirty oil sands project.
The two Web sites, "enviro-canada.ca" and "ec-gc.ca" are "directly connected to a hoax which misleads people into believing that the Government of Canada will take certain actions in relation to environmental matters," Mike Landreville from Environment Canada wrote in an e-mail to the German Internet Service Provider (ISP) Serveloft.
"We trust you appreciate the importance of avoiding confusion among the public concerning Canadian governmental affairs and that you will assist us in preventing this hoax from spreading further."
Going further, Landreville asked the ISP to "make every effort to prevent any further attempts concerning other environment-related domains (enviro, ec-gc, etc.) originating from your servers."
The Great White North carries weight with ISP."
http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/189467.asp
Canadians suck.
11 comments:
I hadn't heard about this. Pretty sad :/
Yeah, shutting down 4500 sites to accomplish political censorship is pretty damn Orwellian.
I would doubt that most Canadians would agree with this and would suggest that you modify the article title from "Canadians Suck" to Candian Government Environment Policy Sucks
Nope. Canadians voted Stephen Harper into power; therefore, as the title reads..
...some people don't subscribe to the idea that all citizens are responsible for the actions of their government. Some people see other people as individuals.
Individuals who are too lazy, ignorant, or made impotent by "individualist politics" to argue politics in order to keep the Stephen Harpers of the world out of power.
But I suppose that is okay, eh, Josh? Stephen Harper's actions are merely the right-wing expression of The Right.
Meh, if the Liberals were in office and did the same thing, you wouldn't be crying.
Don't blame me because Harper's a deutsche.
Really, what do you base that on?
You support their "ends" and therefore you'll support their "means" to get to those "ends".
You don't support the "ends" of the conservatives, therefore the "means" they use to get there are viciously attacked.
Like most right and left wingers, you justify the actions of those who support your ideal solution, while attacking the same actions of those who don't support your ideal solution.
You know, your typically hypocrisy.
Are you sure about that?
Lol, I'm not what you consider "left", Josh. I don't support Obama.
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