Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of chamber-he-statement


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Oct 23, 2009, 6:37:01 PM (15 years ago)
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Jamie McClelland
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    11On Thursday night, October 22, 2009, Hurricane Electric (our upstream Internet provider at one of our major colocation facilities) took a step that represents a dangerous and damaging escalation in provider-based censorship.
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    3 The U.S. Chamber of Commerce sent Hurricane Electric (HE) a letter complaining about a website spoofing the Chamber's obstructionism on climate change policies that was created by MF/PL member the Yes Men.
     3The U.S. Chamber of Commerce sent Hurricane Electric (HE) a [https://support.mayfirst.org/raw-attachment/wiki/dmca/chamber-dmca-notice.pdf letter] complaining about a [http://www.chamber-of-congress.us website] spoofing the Chamber's obstructionism on climate change policies that was created by MF/PL member the Yes Men (read [http://theyesmen.org/chamber more about the spoof].
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    5 HE immediately ordered us to remove the site or face a turn-off of service. We responded that such a demand was arbitrary since it represented a legally untested complaint; unconstitutional since it quashed the fair use of logos in a satirical way; and overreaching because it affected 3/4 of of our membership (over 300 organizations) whose websites, email and other online tools would be taken down in such an action.
     5HE immediately ordered us to remove the spoofed site or face a turn-off of service. We responded that such a demand was:
     6 * arbitrary since it represented a legally untested complaint;
     7 * unconstitutional since it quashed the fair use of logos in a satirical way; and
     8 * overreaching because it affected 3/4 of of our membership (over 300 organizations) whose websites, email and other online tools would be taken down in such an action.
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    710We asked for more time to consider options. HE gave us until the next day and then, without any more notice, shut down all our operations last night. This remarkably destructive action was taken without notifying us and completely contradicts discussions that we had had with them.