MAIG hosted/maintained/funded by NYC hardware, employees, money

[JNieman]

http://161.185.30.92/html/home/demandaplan.html

Why is Bloomberg's 501.c4 organization entirely hosted on NYC municipal government servers? That doesn't seem like something you can do.

$ host mayorsagainstillegalguns.org
mayorsagainstillegalguns.org has address 161.185.30.92
92.30.185.161.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer prtl-sitea-maigs.nyc.gov.



Domain registration:

Registrant Name:NYC DoITT
Registrant Organization:NYC DoITT
Registrant Email:hostmaster@nyc.gov
Name Server:VWALL4A.NYC.GOV
Name Server:VWALL1A.NYC.GOV
Name Server:VWALL2A.NYC.GOV
Name Server:VWALL3A.NYC.GOV

 

[JNieman]

Oh ****, and they're not even apologizing about it - they're defending it:

But Bloomberg spokesman Marc La Vorgna said mayors have the right to decide what is in the best interest of the city and therefore there’s no conflict of interest in the city hosting the group’s website.
*Whoever is mayor of any city gets to decide what the legislative priorities are of that city on the local, state or federal level,* La Vorgna said.
Others pointed out that there is some ambiguity in the law, and it’s unclear whether there’s any legal violation or conflict of interest.

The extent to which city resources have been diverted to maintaining the website remains unclear, though an independent information technology expert estimated the website would cost roughly $1,000 a month to maintain.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jacobfischler/mayors-against-illegal-guns-website-is-hosted-on-nyc-governm