Lawyers for the William Morris Agency pressed an Internet hosting provider to drop service for a site that was critical of outspoken Hollywood liberals, forcing
the site to
shut down .
Ironically, the site criticized people like Tim Robbins, who recently cried censorship when the Baseball Hall of Fame exercised its right to disinvite him. (Apparently, the Hall did not want to risk Tim Robbins hijacking an apolitical event to make a political speech. I guess shutting down this website is not censorship because, well, it didn't publish opinions palatable to people like Tim Robbins.)
While William Morris claims the suit was motivated by a desire to protect itself and its clients from unwanted e-mail, it wasn't the website that was sending the spam; it was the site's visitors.
Andrew Sullivan sums it up nicely in The Washington Times.
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20030502-72260500.htm
