Hi Pavel, speaking for easyDNS I can tell you it’s not possible to simply send in a fake takedown request which we will act upon. That’s one of the reasons why our policy is that it has to be an Ontario court order, even from a foreign court – those get executed via the Ontario Sheriff and we are experienced with that.

As for the conspiracy theory feel of that story, I have been watching this phenomenon play out for quite some time, and it is becoming increasingly more difficult to ignore it and pretend nothing is happening. I’m not saying there’s a shadowy cabal behind it all pulling the strings, but it is pretty evident that both Facebook, and especially Twitter are acting in increasingly arbitrary, and biased ways. The justifications proffered for suspensions against one political stripe or against independent media outlets are nonsensical, while at the same time it is trivially easy to find real actual hate speech and incitements toward violence from another political camps who remain untouched.

Another aspect to this story is that the mainstream press isn’t talking about it, so the only outlets left to do so are the independent ones, who are being increasingly marginalized and deplatformed. I expect this to get worse before it gets better and unchecked it will lead to a type of media concentration that goes against everything the netizen ethos stood for.