On this morning's Diane Rehm show on NPR / WAMU a man called in to report that a friend of his, who runs a news aggregating website, japan.org , had had it taken offline by the Department of Homeland Security. He claimed that his friend had to move the website to a server in Hong Kong. The weird thing is that this is a news aggregating website, whose webmaster does not publish any original material.
Diane and her guests were very skeptical and dismissive, and refused to consider that Homeland Security might do this. I wonder if there are particular stories in the aggregation that Homeland Security is trying to censor within the US. Presumably this would be completely illegal under the 1st amendment, but do they have some kind of statutory exception?
I tried to access www.japan.org, but it would not load for me. Can anyone else get through to it?
Thanks for your assistance in following up on this mysterious story!