Web Server Takedown Called Speech Threat

[truthpusher]

Web Server Takedown Called Speech Threat

1 hour, 33 minutes ago

By ELLEN SIMON, AP Technology Writer

Devin Theriot-Orr, a member a feisty group of reporter-activists called Indymedia, was surprised when two FBI (news - web sites) agents showed up at his Seattle law office, saying the visit was a "courtesy call" on behalf of Swiss authorities.

Theriot-Orr was even more surprised a week later when more than 20 Indymedia Web sites were knocked offline as the computer servers that hosted them were seized in Britain.

The Independent Media Center, more commonly known as Indymedia, says the seizure is tantamount to censorship, and civil libertarians agree. The Internet is a publishing medium just like a printing press, they argue, and governments have no right to remove Web sites.


The case, which involves an Internet company based in Texas, photos of undercover Swiss police officers and a request from an Italian prosecutor investigating anarchists, raises questions about the circumstances under which Internet companies can be compelled to turn over data.

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[aquart]

1. Yup.

[gulfcoastliberal]

2. Here we go...

They'll dismantle this medium bit by bit till it only serves the interests of the elites. This is not good.

[truthpusher]

3. It's only the beginning if * is back...

...We need to at least take the White House and the Senate - otherwise we're fucked!!

[tlcandie]

4. If these Swiss undercovers were at a protest posing as

protestors...how is it they aren't open for photos? If they are in the public area then how can they expect secrecy?

Mind boggling.

I like that statment. If it was the photos, they failed. The internet is like water... you can't just go in and try to pull A PHOTO..now those pictures are mirrored on over 300 sites! :+

[VegasWolf]

5. These people are giving Asscroft new ideas for Patriot 3.

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