Judge wants identities of H-1B posters
p2pnet news view P2P:- ITgrunt.com and Endh1b.com were both offline at 7:36 am Pacific, today.
But Guestworkerfraud.com was still up and running under ‘Guest Worker Fraud’, describing itself as a “A website exposing the outrageous fraud and crimes of guestworkers in the U.S.”
All three are H-1B opposition sites, H-1B being a “non-immigrant visa in the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act, section 101(a)(15)(H),” explains the Wikipedia, going on:
“It allows U.S. employers to temporarily employ foreign workers in specialty occupations. If a foreign worker in H-1B status quits or is dismissed from the sponsoring employer, the worker can find another employer, apply for a change of status to another non-immigrant status, or must leave the US.”
The sites have been ordered offline by a New Jersey judge who wants “information about the identity of anonymous posters,” says Computerworld, going on:
“On Dec. 23, Middlesex County Superior Court Judge James Hurley ordered firms that register domains and provide hosting services — GoDaddy Inc., Network Solutions, Comcast Cable Communications Inc. and DiscountASP.Net, to disable the three sites, ITgrunt.com, Endh1b.com, and Guestworkerfraud.com. Facebook Inc. was also ordered to disable ITgrunt’s Facebook page.”
Hurley’s order follows a libel lawsuit filed by IT services and consulting firm Apex Technology against the sites , says the story, stating >>>
DiscountASP.Net said it has disabled Endh1b.com after it received the order from the New Jersey Superior Court. The order did not request any account information, only that the company “…immediately shut down and disable the website www.endh1b.com until further order of this court..,” a spokesman said in an email. Facebook said it received the document Monday.
GoDaddy is complying with the order and has suspended the web hosting for ITgrunt.com, said Laurie Anderson. GoDaddy disputes manager, domain services.
The web site Endh1b.com is registered but not hosted at Go Daddy, Anderson added in an e-mail. “Both domain names have been placed on registrar lock due to the pending litigation. When Go Daddy receives a court order, it is standard procedure to comply,” she said.
Apex is “seeking the identity of a person who posted an Apex employment agreement on Docstoc.com, that has since been removed,” says Computerworld.
“A link to the document and comments critical of it has been posted on a variety of Web sites, including at least one in India, on Desicrunch.com. The comment broadly alleges that employees will find it difficult to leave Apex because of its contract terms.”
Apex said it also wants “contact details of the individual who posted this legal agreement without permission since we are the copyright owner of the legal document,” the story adds.
Computerworld – Court orders three H-1B sites disabled, December 28, 2009
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December 29th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Corporations won’t misuse copyright laws for censorship or other non-intended uses. Of course they won’t.
You can trust them.
Let’s give them even more money by allowing them to tax the net. We can trust them not to abuse corporate
privilege.
December 29th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
It must be posted to Wikileaks
December 29th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
US employers post thousands of fake job ads to prove that NO american is suitable for the job. And American job seekers waste their time with these ads. Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, etc. are known to have these practices.
http://www.google.ca/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=H1-B+fake+job+ads&num=50&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
December 29th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
US employers post thousands of fake job ads to prove that NO american is suitable for the job. And American job seekers waste their time with these ads. Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, etc. are known to have these practices.
This i very true.
December 30th, 2009 at 5:21 am
Corporations abuse the letter and the spirit of the law, and the judges comply hand-in-hand. The corporations ARE YOUR FOURTH BRANCH OF GOV’T! They buy and sell the other three branches too! If this isn’t fascism, then what is it? The jails-for-profit, oppressive drug laws and judicial system, rampant abuse of consumers in the name of ‘copyright’, the news media that only spews propaganda, the constant beating of the war drums, ALL IN THE NAME OF PROFITS FOR THE CORPORATE MACHINE!
So, little people, just keep your mouths shut and spend spend spend. Open your mouth, speak out about any minor injustice committed by your corporate masters, and be squashed like a bug. The laws won’t protect anyone.
Also, everyone should learn the lesson about registering or hosting ANYTHING in the United States. On the whims of any one of thousands of shit-for-brains and technically illiterate judges, you’re offline and your domain is suspended.