Erin posted earlier regarding the standoff between UC San Diego and the Che Cafe Collective; the former is trying to pressure the latter into removing a hyperlink between its site and that of a Columbian terrorist organization. UCSD charges that by maintaining this link Che Cafe Collective provides "material support" to terrorists, thus violating the Patriot Act. Stuff and nonsense, say FIRE, the EFF, and other civil liberties groups, aghast at UCSD's thinly-veiled effort to chill campus speech. Here's something interesting, though: If you look at the bottom of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia site (there's my act of civil disobedience for the day), you'll see that the organization's contact e-mail address is hosted by hotmail.com. Hotmail, in turn, is owned by Microsoft. Hosting a terrorist group's email account would seem "material support" on a far greater order than merely providing a hyperlink. Is it now time to shut down Microsoft? (I hear whoops of joy from Linux hackers worldwide.)