The Boycott Hollywood website is to be no more. The famed Hollywood pundit that exercised their First Amendment freedoms by criticizing anti-war, anti-Bush, and anti-American celebrities and countering the left-wing rhetoric coming out of Hollywood has been squelched, by none other than Hollywood itself. Apparently, the William Morris agency, representing several Hollywood actors and actresses has pressed legal action against the domain registrar. Cold Fury and Instapundit have some of the details, but this boils down to raw censorship of Indymedia.

Imagine if a big Hollywood agency went to your webhost or domain registrar and demanded that they shut you down? Who would win the legal battle? Would you even have the resources to wage such a war?

The folks at Boycott Hollywood offered some parting words.

Well, folks - it's been a blast and it's been fun.

Apparently, our domain registrar (namesdirect.com - subsidiary of Dotster.com) have caved to the pressures of the William Morris Agency giant. On April 29, 2003, Dotster.com received a letter from the William Morris Agency in regards to this website. Their complaint accused us of liable and potentially other civil and criminal offenses.

This is another fine example of how Hollywood feels that their opinion and view is the only one that matters. Average citizens are disallowed the free expression of our point of view because they don't like being challenged for their views. I stand firm on the belief that we have done nothing wrong at this website - - The celebrities have expressed their views, and we have responded in kind by expressing our views regarding the thoughts and ideas that they have, publicly, expressed.

...I can say only this - - the fact that we're being shut down because of the William Morris Agency tells me that we truly touched a raw nerve in someone, somewhere. At the very least, it tells me that our message was recieved by the people that it was intended for. The very fact that we cannot express our opinions regarding the views of these stars/celebs shows me, yet again, the double standard that exists in Follywood.

They continue into more detail, and offer up a scan of the letter their domain registrar received from the William Morris Agency. Another website, Hollywood Halfwits also has a cached copy of their final statements.

This irritates my last nerve. As someone who has been quantifying celebrity nonsense, could I be a target? What about others like me. The hypocritical left never ceases to amaze me. Are these not the same people who cried censorship and blacklisting? Are these not the same people that said they have the right to say whatever they want with no consequences?

I don't think I can get over this. Although I have not previously participated in any boycotts, I'm going to start now by refusing to see any movies this summer. I had plans to go see the new X-men movie on Sunday, but I will cancel them. It may not be much. My ten bucks may be insignificant, but they will get no more of my money for a while.