Mozilla Refuses to Block Extension for Homeland Security As Government's ICE Effort Continues to Look Silly The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office of the Department of Homeland Security has been conducting a new campaign that involves seizing the domains used by websites involved in copyright infringement, the sale of counterfeit goods or child pornography. The effort has been a rather ham-fisted affair so far, the government taking a legitimate foreign businesses offline, as causing the outage of 84,000 largely legal websites after seizing the domain of a free DNS service operator.

quote: 1. Have any courts determined that MAFIAAfire.com is unlawful or illegal in any way? If so, on what basis? (Please provide any relevant rulings) 2. Have any courts determined that the seized domains related to MAFIAAfire.com are unlawful, illegal or liable for infringement in any way? (please provide relevant rulings) 3. Is Mozilla legally obligated to disable the add-on or is this request based on other reasons? If other reasons, can you please specify. 4. Has DHS, or any copyright owners involved in this matter, taken any legal action against MAFIAAfire.com or the seized domains, including DMCA requests? 5. What protections are in place for MAFIAAfire.com or the seized domain owners if eventually a court decides they were not unlawful? Given that the DHS effort is Recently, someone coded a fairly simply Firefox extension named MAFIAAfire that simply forwarded visitors of seized domains to the website's new locations, since many of these sites simply pop right back up again. Homeland Security apparently wasn't too happy with the extension, and demanded that Mozilla block it. Instead of buckling, Mozilla refused -- sending the government a long list of questions , including:Given that the DHS effort is likely illegal in and of itself , and the extension breaks no laws, it seems unlikely that you'll be seeing any responses to any of Mozilla's questions. Mozilla's attorney confirms they've received no response so far via his blog.







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BK

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Chicago, IL 3 recommendations BK Member "Like" Mozilla gets a big thumbs up for this one

pnh102

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Mount Airy, MD 2 recommendations pnh102 Premium Member Defund DHS Don't these clowns have innocent civilians to frisk and ATF agents to assist in sending guns down to Mexico? Or maybe they have more sections of the border that they need to stop enforcing so more illegals can waltz on over? Or did they finish doing all that?



DHS needs to go. If this kind of BS is the best it can do to justify all the tax money we pay into this agency, then really, it needs to go.