America's Network Solutions Abruptly Ends Web Hosting With Hezbollah Amid Halting Of Dutch Film Controversy

Isn't it amazing what a little time under the spotlight will do to a company? Network Solutions is the American-based web site registrar that blocked access to the website of Geert Wilders' upcoming movie, Fitna and just yesterday, it was revealed that Network Solutions abruptly pulled the plug on another site it had registered - that site was owned by the terrorist group, Hezbollah. Now, when you pull up the link to the story, the first 3/4 of the article is about the Wilders controversy but there is an update towards the bottom of the article that discusses the nixing of the Hezbollah site. The full story is here from The Washington Post. And here is an excerpt from that update:

Update, Mar. 26, 9:42 a.m. ET: NetworkSolutions on Monday pulled the plug on Hizbollah.org, one of the official Web sites of Hezbollah, a political and paramilitary group in Lebanon. NetworkSolutions spokeswoman Susan Wade confirmed that the company suspended the domain in response to numerous complaints, and to findings that the site violated the company's acceptable use policy.

Incredible, isn't it? Network Solutions makes this out of the blue decision to pull the plug on the Wilders site because they claim it could be to incendiary to muslims and the whole bloody time, these people are hosting a site operated by one of the world's most notorious islamic terrorist groups. So that leads to the TRUE reason why Network Solutions pulled the plug on the Dutch site, doesn' it?

I think it is high time that FBI and Homeland Security officials make a full investigation of Network Solutions and its parent company for terror violations.

Network Solutions Pre-Censors Anti-Islam Site

Update, Mar. 26, 9:42 a.m. ET: NetworkSolutions on Monday pulled the plug on Hizbollah.org, one of the official Web sites of Hezbollah, a political and paramilitary group in Lebanon. NetworkSolutions spokeswoman Susan Wade confirmed that the company suspended the domain in response to numerous complaints, and to findings that the site violated the company's acceptable use policy. As noted in the comments for this post, Hezbollah is rather prominently included under the U.S. State Department's list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. FTOs are designated under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, and under that law it is illegal "for a person in the United States or subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to knowingly provide 'material support or resources' to a designated FTO." So, complaint or no, NetworkSolutions would appear to have been in violation of that law until it terminated its contract with Hizbollah.