[justshe]

Help me out here.

In what manner has the federal government attempted to shut down this website.....which would make their claim re: 1st Amendment rights infringement legitimate.

This is pet peeve of mine re: those who holler about the 1st Amendment...when clearly inappropriate.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

[Texas Eagle]

That is an excellent point. One that can also be made about school prayer. The Constitution doesn't say anything about local school districts. It only makes reference to Congress being prohibited from establishing a religion.

[Inkie]

You are 100% correct. It is dotster's prerogative as to whether it will host a particular site. If it pulls privileges in response to pressure from its public, that is no different from any country music station, say, refusing to play Dixie Chicks songs in response to pressure from its public. I'm as anti-Hollywood lefties as anyone, but this is not a First Amendment issue.

[Timesink]

In what manner has the federal government attempted to shut down this website.....which would make their claim re: 1st Amendment rights infringement legitimate.

Dotster's "privilege" to register domains is granted to them by the US government. If Dotster and all the other domain registrars got together and decided "Well, we're not going to register conservative sites," then conservative sites would not be able to get online at all*, and that is a direct 1st Amendment violation since they're more or less government-licensed.

* Getting very technical, you still COULD set up a conservative site, but you'd have to use an IP address, a pure number (like 127.0.0.1) that nobody could remember ... it would be vaguely analagous to the phone company telling you "Sure, you can have a phone line, but we won't tell you what the number is."

[HennepinPrisoner]

Cartainly you are correct....it does irk me when peeople like Tim Robbins and Natalie Maines claim their "Freedom of Speech" has been infringed....when, in the Constitutional sense, it most certainly has not.

However, this action by the William Morris Agency does at least prove that Hollywierd uses its might/resources to silence dissent....which is the very same thing Robbins and Maines complains patriotic Americans are doing to them.

I am not upset by the actions of the William Morris agency at all....I just get miffed at Hollyweirdos when they complain about ordinary Americans doing the exact same thing.