Until, that is, the FBI shut it down and replaced its front page with a sign saying "THIS HIDDEN SITE HAS BEEN SEIZED" – raising the obvious question of how the site could really be hidden if you were looking at it, and quite what "seized" means in the context of a virtual object.
Her courage in seizing the means of production is an inspiration to us all".
Rave D.J.'s and sound engineers, he gushes, are going much further by "seizing the means of perception".
China isn't trading, it is seizing the means of production.
He's seizing the means of political production and transferring it from insiders to the general public.
Fifteen socialists winning relatively minor offices is a long way away from seizing the means of production, but it's hopefully the beginning of something larger.
It might look like communal living, selective destruction of property, occupying public and unused private spaces, seizing the means of production at individual workplaces, mass whistle-blowing, and reclaiming resources from corporations that currently hoard and profit off them.
In one of its phrasal forms, seized up means "jammed," and in another, seized by, the passive meaning is "taken up with," as by a convulsion, or more happily, by a bright idea.
Is YouTube attempting to seize the means of production from Hollywood?
Meanwhile, Karl Marx predicted that workers would someday seize the means of production and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat.
