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[p2pnet news] Within days of the Yes Men incident, both Environment Canada and the Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre, which is part of Public Safety Canada, wrote to the hosting ISP to ask that it shut down the fake websites. While officials understandably pointed to trademark and copyright concerns (the sites were designed to look confusingly similar to actual government websites), those claims alone would not have been enough for most Internet providers to act.
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[Strange Bedfellows] A huffy Canada shuts down 'Yes Men': Serverloft immediately turned off a wide block of provider addresses, knocking out 4500 websites that had nothing to do with "Yes Men" or the parody that raises such hackles among Harper's minions. The "Yes Men" made international headlines with the parody.
[ecorazzi.com :: the latest in green gossip] Canada Takes On The Yes Men After Copenhagen Prank, Fails ...: In response to Environment Canada's request, Serverloft immediately turned off a whole block of IP addresses, knocking out more than 4500 websites that had nothing to do with the parody sites or the activists who created them.
[p2pnet news] p2pnet news » Blog Archive » Harper government stomps the Yes Men: In response to Environment Canada’s request, Serverloft immediately turned off a whole block of IP addresses, knocking out more than 4500 websites that had nothing to do with the parody sites or the activists who created them. Serverloft was shown no warrant, and never called the web hosting company about the shutdown.
[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news] Canada Successfully Destroys Parody Websites | Mostly Water: In response to Environment Canada's request, Serverloft immediately turned off a whole block of IP addresses, knocking out more than 4500 websites that had nothing to do with the parody sites or the activists who created them. Serverloft was shown no warrant, and never called the web hosting company about the shutdown.
[Maximum PC News RSS Feed] Touchy Canadians and Exuberant ISP Dump 4500 Websites | Maximum PC: Mark Landreville, of Environment Canada, in an email to Serverloft, wrote: “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,” asked the offending sites be taken down, and that no others of the ilk be allowed. Serverloft, with nothing more official than the email, complied with the request, and in the process dumped, without notice, an additional 4500 websites unrelated to the parody.
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[The Canadian National Newspaper Exopolitics Headlines] Stephen Harper government shuts down parody websites criticizing ...: The two websites, “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,” wrote Mike Landreville from Environment Canada in an email to the German Internet Service Provider (ISP) Serverloft. “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.”
[A Green Living Blog] Canada Goes After Yes Men For Copenhagen Parody, Knocks Out 4500 ...: The Canadian Prime Minister is not known for his sense of humour, and was not amused; Instead, Environment Canada went after the host of the parody website and demanded that it be taken down
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[OpenMedia.ca - Open & Democratic Media the Canadian Way] Canadian Government Shuts Down Environmental Parody Websites ...: The Canadian Government has officially convinced the German ISP, Serverloft, to remove the two parody websites, "http://ec-gc.ca" and "http://enviro-canada.ca." The parody websites criticized current Canadian environmental policy. ... They were both run by activists of the organizations The Yes Men and Climate Debt Agents. The Canadian government declared that the websites should be removed to avoid confusion between the real and the parody websites. ...
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