Free Speech?

The Calgary police chief has managed to shut down a website run by "a civilian police employee"t hat was disparaging of him and his senior managers. Is that even legal? There is a "sweeping" gag order, so it's tough to know the details, but whoever was running the site should have put it up on a server outside of Calgary (it was running out of his/her basement) - and I guess out of the country. Like this one!