NTT/Verio forces News sites to edit articles

It seems that Verio will threaten to unhook anyone from the internet
based on nothing more than a complaint.

From the front page of http://www.officialspin.com/

NTT/Verio forces News sites to edit articles
News reporting on IEQ allegations of fraud, censored by NTT/Verio, as
global networking giant bows to commercial pressure by Seymour Pierce

Englewood, Colorado – (OfficialSpin.com) – 18/01/03 – Since March 2002,
OfficialSpin has been reporting on a story that involves directors of
Seymour Pierce, the City (London) investment banker-to-AIM adviser and
their irrefutable involvement with the ruin of IEQ PLC (formerly
Intermediate Equity plc).

An article published on 5th January 2003 on OfficialSpin entitled "Self
Dealing in the City", which also appeared on a sister site, Business AM
under the same title, and another article published on 7th January 2003
only on Business AM entitled "Non Disclosure at Seymour Pierce" were
objected to by Seymour Pierce on 8th January. Both OfficialSpin PLC and
Business AM Limited are subsidiaries of Kestrel Trading Corporation.

Kestrel receives dedicated server facilities from NTT/Verio, and has
hosted more than 200 of the company's news and e-commerce sites for nearly
three years.

Seymour Pierce's London-based lawyer Memery Crystal wrote to Verio, Inc.
in the USA, where the sites are hosted, and complained venomously.

Verio forwarded the faxes to Kestrel by email on 14th January 2003.
Kestrel immediately replied that they "did not believe the content to be
defamatory", that the content "was factual" and that the writers "would
stand by their stories". Kestrel further undertook in writing to
"indemnify Verio" should Memery Crystal follow through with their threats
of legal action, in London, against Verio UK.

Within 2 hours, Verio's legal department replied that the content must be
removed or they would block access to the sites subject to their
acceptable use policy.

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