FC: Web hosting company pulls plug on pro-IRA radio station

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

[This seems like an overreaction. Apparently a web hosting company was 
afraid that providing web space to an pro-IRA online radio station might 
get said company in trouble. So it pulled the plug. In any case, it does 
not appear that they were threatened by -- or even contacted by -- the 
Feds. --DBM]

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Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 22:23:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Guilherme C Roschke <groschke () luminousvoid net>
To: declan () well com
Subject: Fwd: Bush cracks down on antiwar movement (fwd)

FYI and for politech...

gr () luminousvoid net
http://www.luminousvoid.net

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http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/30/1859212

   Three Political Websites Downed After Government "Homeland Security"
   Threat

   posted by Autonomedia on Sunday September 30, @01:52PM
   from the is-this-the-last-message-we-will-be-posting-you? dept.

     raradio.com, the web site which archives all Radio
   Free Eireann broadcasts, has been taken down because the web service
   provider was threatened with seizure of their assets if they continued
   to host "terrorist" radio programs. Travis E. Towle, the Founder and
   CEO of Cosmic Entertainment Company, which put up IRARADIO.COM, was
   told by their internet service provider, Hypervine, that they had been
   "strongly advised" to take the web site down.

   A Hypervine representative read Mr. Towle a statement that, under an
   Executive Order recently signed by President Bush, the newly created
   Office of Homeland Security can seize all assets "without any notice
   and/or any real un-reasonable evidence of any company or person that
   helps, supports, or does anything that can be called or labeled
   terrorism or is found to be connected to terrorism in any way or means
   possible." Hypervine is a subsidiary of the New York based Skynet.
   These threats have also caused Cosmic Entertainment to close the web
   sites archiving two other WBAI radio programs, "Our Americas" and
   "Grandpa Al Lewis Live." "Our Americas," hosted by Mario Murillo, is
   an acclaimed news magazine covering Latin America. "Grandpa Al Lewis
   Live" features commentary by the actor and political activist who
   starred in "The Munsters" and "Car 54 Where Are You."
   Radio Free Eireann, which broadcasts Saturday afternoons at 1:30 p.m.
   on WBAI 99.5 FM has covered the conflict in Northern Ireland for over
   twenty years. Guests have included Bernadette Sands, the sister of IRA
   hunger striker Bobby Sands; Rauri O'Bradaigh, the President of
   Republican Sinn Fein; Sinn Fein chief negotiator Martin McGuinness and
   Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern.

   update: it seems that this (mostly) is not a hoax. www.iraradio.org
   and www.allewislive.com have been taken down, although
   www.ouramericas.org is still running with no notice of this event.

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http://www.iraradio.com/

Attention IRAradio Listeners:
President Bush recently signed a new law that lets the FBI, CIA & OHS seize 
assets "without any notice and/or any real un-reasonable evidence of ANY 
company or person that helps, supports, or does anything that can be called 
or labeled terrorism or is found to be connected to terrorism in any way or 
means possible".  Word has spread about several Internet companies that 
have had their assets seized using this new law.
In light of the foregoing and the recent tragic events in the United 
States, the Cosmic Entertainment Company board of advisors has deemed it 
advisable and in the best interests of the Company to temporarily shut down 
the IRAradio.com web site until the turbulence and uncertainty facing our 
nation has decreased.  THE COSMIC ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY DOES NOT AND WILL 
NOT SUPPORT TERRORISM OF ANY KIND!
Questions regarding this web site should be directed to:
Travis E. Towle
Founder & CEO
The Cosmic Entertainment Company
Phone:  785.554.8238  E-Mail:  travis.towle () cosmicradio com

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