They shut down Indymedia? How did I miss that?

[redqueen]

This is unbelievable!

:grr:

[MADem]

1. AGAIN???? n/t

[redqueen]

2. No apparently I'm just finding out about this

I didn't know! They're all back up now.

[NecessaryOnslaught]

3. The FBI took their servers

a couple weeks ago. Indymedia is down huh?

[redqueen]

4. No... they're apparently all back up.

I just now heard... WTF?!

This happened at the request of another country... so this is a whole new can of worms.

[NecessaryOnslaught]

6. Whew, remember what happened last time...

the FBI pulled this shit.

Thursday, 6 September, 2001

"About 80 agents of an anti-terrorism task force raided the premises of InfoCom in Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday and copied information from the company's internet servers."

"The action shut down about 500 websites temporarily, including that of a leading television news channel in the Arab world, al-Jazeera."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1529614.stm

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

5. Are you guys talking about www.indymedia.org?

I have a friend who writes articles for the Maine Indymedia. She spends almost all of her free time distributing the paper around the state.

I guess the newspaper is called the Maine Commons.

[redqueen]

7. This is bad

I hope that original order is unsealed. I really do.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=562&e=10&u=/ap/20041027/ap_on_hi_te/web_server_seizure


"The significance of this is that apparently, a foreign government, based on a secret process, can have the U.S. government silence independent news sources without ever having to answer to the American people about how that kind of restraint could happen," said Keith Bankston, a lawyer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which drafted the motion. "Every press organization should be asking, 'Am I next?'"


The FBI issued a statement saying that, "at the request of a foreign law enforcement agency," it assisted in serving Rackspace with a U.S. subpoena for Indymedia records. "Rackspace located the Indymedia records on servers in the United Kingdom. A brief interruption of Indymedia's Internet service resulted when Rackspace copied the subpoenaed records from their servers. There is no FBI or U.S. investigation into Indymedia."