Fitna is a controversial film from the Netherlands about the Koran. Like pretty much everything that is even remotely critical of anything having to do with Islam, it managed to garner to it quite a rent-a-mob to criticize and condemn anyone that would publish it. Network Solutions, being the risk-averse corporation that it is, decided to err on the side of caution and shut down the website of its paying customer (Geert Wilders and his supporters) so that they would not further inflame the sentiments of their presumably predominantly Muslim critics. This raises the question of what sort of freedom of speech actually exists online when companies will shut down websites that get a lot of complaints about them, even though the site may be posting nothing that is criminal or objectively even particularly offensive.This would not be the first time that Muslim whiners and activists have gotten a major hosting service of some sort to shut down content that was not only not bigoted, but was the sort of speech that generally is considered worth protecting by free speech supporters. YouTube has a whole sordid history of giving in to any Muslim rent-a-mob that manages to direct enough harassment toward them about the content of a video that smacks of being critical of Islam in any way. One of the only exceptions to this in recent times has been Wikipedia's refusal to accommodate a protest by Muslims concerning the hosting of images of the controversial Danish cartoons.
Defenders of free speech are going to have to insist on fighting hosting services that give in so easily if free speech is to be protected online. It does little good to have a theoretical right to freedom of speech if no medium is willing to host your speech because they are afraid that someone will complain about what you are saying.
Wilders Movie Website, Network Solutions, Is Caving Into Radical Islam.
Muslims Against Sharia neither endorse nor condemn "Fitna"; we have not seen the film. However, we find it disturbing that Network Solution suspended "Fitna" website while hosting a multitude of radical Islamic websites, some of which belong to (or are closely affiliated with) terrorist groups.
http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/2008/03/is-wilders-movie-website-network.html
You need to update more this week. I am here in training and they have virtually every site blocked out. I can't get to email, blogspot, or even google, so I am bored. :) I can get to you website though, how strange is that?