Claverhouse
17 Oct 2004, 10:54 PM
In case you missed it, Indymedia has been hit in the last week:
FBI Closes Down Servers (http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_12596.shtml)
Part of the article:
FBI shuts down 20 antiwar web sites: an unprecedented act of Internet censorship
By WSWS correspondent
Oct 13, 2004, 13:14
The US government move to shut down nearly two dozen antiwar, anti-globalization web sites on October 7 is an unprecedented exercise of police power against political dissent on the Internet.
The shutdown was carried out by Rackspace, a US-based web-hosting company with offices in San Antonio, Texas, and greater London, in response to an order from the FBI requiring it to turn over two of its British servers that were hosting dozens of Indymedia sites. There are conflicting accounts of the legal process, with Indymedia attributing the order to a US federal district court, while the Electronic Freedom Foundation, which is supplying legal representation to the group, describes it as a “commissioner’s order” directly from the FBI itself.
At least 20 national web sites, including those for Brazil, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Uruguay were taken down when the hard drives for the servers were given to the FBI. Most of the sites were restored to service by the end of the weekend, but they may have lost significant digital content because of the removal of the hardware.
If you can't get Usamah, or al Zargawi, you have to go after the really bad guys, the feared Indy Terror Network. Thousands of coffee-sipping anarchist nerds in beanies sworn to destroy the West and the Democratic Way of Life.
Claverhouse :ph34r:
Also they got the go-ahead from the fiercely democratic Alessandra Mussolini, one of Italy's most powerful Women Politicians. Hands across the Seas.
FBI Closes Down Servers (http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_12596.shtml)
Part of the article:
FBI shuts down 20 antiwar web sites: an unprecedented act of Internet censorship
By WSWS correspondent
Oct 13, 2004, 13:14
The US government move to shut down nearly two dozen antiwar, anti-globalization web sites on October 7 is an unprecedented exercise of police power against political dissent on the Internet.
The shutdown was carried out by Rackspace, a US-based web-hosting company with offices in San Antonio, Texas, and greater London, in response to an order from the FBI requiring it to turn over two of its British servers that were hosting dozens of Indymedia sites. There are conflicting accounts of the legal process, with Indymedia attributing the order to a US federal district court, while the Electronic Freedom Foundation, which is supplying legal representation to the group, describes it as a “commissioner’s order” directly from the FBI itself.
At least 20 national web sites, including those for Brazil, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Uruguay were taken down when the hard drives for the servers were given to the FBI. Most of the sites were restored to service by the end of the weekend, but they may have lost significant digital content because of the removal of the hardware.
If you can't get Usamah, or al Zargawi, you have to go after the really bad guys, the feared Indy Terror Network. Thousands of coffee-sipping anarchist nerds in beanies sworn to destroy the West and the Democratic Way of Life.
Claverhouse :ph34r:
Also they got the go-ahead from the fiercely democratic Alessandra Mussolini, one of Italy's most powerful Women Politicians. Hands across the Seas.