Psaiyan wrote:
> Love him or loathe him, you cannot deny that the Goatse Man and his
> dilated anus have had a huge impact on popular culture in the past
> five years, at least as far as the internet is concerned. I'm sure
> that most people at one time or another have either been pranked or
> pranked others with the front page of his site, used his image in your
> photoshop works or simply gawped at the limits to which the human body
> can be taken.
> 
> The web simply would not be the same without him.
> 
> It seems however that Goatse's days are numbered, thanks to the
> Christmas Island Internet Administration
> 
> Quoted directly from the main page of http://www.goatse.cx
> 
> 
>>ALERT
>>The CX Registry has shut off the goatse.cx domain suddenly and without warning.
>>They have cowardly cited a section of their AUP with allows them to remove sites at their discretion.
>>Please e-mail info@nic.cx with your opinion of this matter.
> 
> 
> It has been theorised that this may be due more to politics than any
> breach of terms - that Goatse has become an embarrassment and a
> liability to the Christmas Island authorities by nature of being by
> far the most famous *.cx site on the web and generating a bad
> reputation for the island.
> 
> I've posted to the groups I regularly read in the hope that some of
> you, whether from a Goatse fanboy or freedom of expression viewpoint
> (does a stretched anus count as 'free speech'? You decide), might make
> your feelings known to the powers that be (at the address above) in an
> attempt to save an internet legend from oblivion.
> 
> An online petition has also been created to the same effect (not by
> me, I might add).
> 
> http://www.petitiononline.com/goatseup/petition.html
> 
> Thanks for taking the time to read this. I will now get back to my
> usual business of drooling over Ayanami-chan.

Good Lord, how often do you go there, that you saw this?

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