Mozilla refuses US request to ban Firefox add-on
Found on The Register on Wednesday, 04 May 2011
The request came from officials at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency under the Department of Homeland Security that in February took the unprecedented step of seizing domain names accused of streaming live pay-per-view sporting events.
According to a blog post published on Thursday by Mozilla General Counsel Harvey Anderson, ICE officials alleged MafiaaFire circumvented their seizure order and asked Mozilla to remove it.
Good to see that the Mozilla Foundation does not give in to those censorship demands. "Operation in our Sites" (who comes up with those retarded project names?) is operating in a more than just grey area. Simply taking domains from their rightful owner is basically theft and thus illegal. It's also about time that the control over the com/net/org TLD's is taken away from the US.