An nameless reader writes "A federal judge has ruled that a number of a websites bargain in counterfeit Chanel goods can have their domains seized and transferred to a new registrar. Astonishingly, the judge also ordered that the sites must be de-indexed from all search engines and all social media websites. Quoting the article: 'Missing from the ruling is any canvass of the Internet's global nature; the judge shows no consciousness that the domains in inquire might not even be registered in this country, for instance, and his ban on search engine and social media indexing superficially extends to the entire world. (And, when applied to US-based companies like Twitter, externally compels them to censor the links globally rather than only when accessed by people in the US.) Indeed, a cursory search through the list of offending domains turns up poshmoda.ws, a site registered in Germany. The German registrar has not yet complied with the US court order, though most other domain names on the list are .com or .net names and have been seized.'"

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