Homeland Security Admits That It’s The Private Police Force Of The Entertainment Industry

“We’ve been quite concerned about the legality of Homeland
Security’s domain name seizures — especially in cases where they
took down sites that had a ton of legitimate content, such as
various hip hop blogs, with no due process and no adversarial
hearings. One other concern was where Homeland Security’s direction
on this was coming from. As we noted, in an earlier similar domain
name seizure situation, Homeland Security announced the seizures
from Disney’s headquarters — which should raise lots of eyebrows.
As we said at the time, imagine any other government agency
announcing a third party action that benefits a particular company
from that company’s offices. For example, imagine the FTC
announcing antitrust actions against Google from Microsoft’s
offices. Wouldn’t people question the legitimacy of that?

“Well, apparently, Homeland Security and the folks in its
Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) group have no qualms at
all about being quite upfront and frank about both the fact that
they’re acting as Hollywood’s private police force and that they
have little concern for due process. Entertainment Weekly spoke
with Erik Barnett, the “assistant deputy director” for ICE, and he
readily admitted that they were taking orders from the
industry:”

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