Treasury Dept.’s outrageous web censorship

This is from today’s New York Times. Adam Liptak reports that the Treasury Department is shutting down websites that have to do with travel to Cuba, even if the websites belong to foreign travel agencies who are not offering services to U.S. citizens, but only to people in other countries who can travel to Cuba freely under their own laws. These are businesses not operating in the U.S., with websites not hosted on servers in the U.S. The only thing about these businesses that has to do with the U.S. is that U.S. based domain registrars registered their domain names. The Treasury Department created a blacklist of websites having to do with travel to Cuba, and simply took them off the web by going directly to the domain name registrars. No due process and no jurisdiction for this censorship. The Treasury Department is not within its rights here, but this administration can get away with just about whatever it wants post 9/11…