http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-seizes-bittorrent-search-engine-domain-and-more-101126/
Discuss.
On the comment thread, I rather liked this take:
It’s funny how the US always parades freedom like it’s a bloody cult, and then they pass legislation that’s the opposite of freedom.
This is starting to look like a regime in it’s prime.
Maybe a bit off-topic, but, why Gestapo? The Soviet were much worse at civil rights, even the anglo-americans had and still have their own gestapo, check Lincoln during the civil war, check churchill during Churchill war where he detained almost 2000 without charges for years, the americans too, and today the creators of anti-terrorism legislators are the americans. It should be more correct to use "Federal" as in federal government or MIX. We shouldn't fall in a propaganda trap. If you use Gestapo I can remind you that it was the Americans and British who financed and helped Stalin and the Bolcheviks against half Europe, which they betrayed. I'm tired of people using gestapo, nazis everywhere, used it only in history please, and when you have researched it! Don't mock it by over-using words like that!
Well.....Alright then. I guess I won't do that. "Gestapo" is just a euphemism for something being totalitarian. I'm sure all of us at Mises are well aware of America's past totalitarianism as well.