FBI shut down ' Indymedia' websites .

[Jasper 91]

Indymedia reports on the anti-globalisation movement
The FBI has shut down some 20 sites which were part of an alternative media network known as Indymedia.
A US court order forced the firm hosting the material to hand over two servers in the UK used by the group.
Indymedia says it is a news source for the anti-globalisation movement and other social justice issues.

The reasons behind the seizure are unclear but the FBI has reportedly said the action was taken at the request of Italian and Swiss authorities.
More :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3732718.stm

Call me cynical , but this couldn't have anything to do with Indymedia being the ones to break the story of Bush being wired . Surely not .

I think that speech is no longer 'free' and that this is another example of the iron grip the right-wing hold on the media . Give it a few more years and America will be an Oligarchy , in all but name , where we are told what is true and no dissenting voices are allowed .

If Bush gets in again , be afraid , be very afraid .

[sventvkg]

1. How the hell does the FBI get Servers shut off in England????

This is bullshit.

[gandalf]

3. The provides is a US company

this might be the reason.

[RC]

4. And at the request of

Italian and Swiss authorities?
I was under the impression that the FBI was a US domestic law enforcement agency. Where was Interpol in all this?

[Jasper 91]

8. Here's more info' on this story .

http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml

I don't know if this is THE original Bush wired story that Indymedia broke , or should that be started , but this was reported from Portland on 10/2

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/298647.shtml

[liberal N proud]

2. Another free voice silenced n/t

[gandalf]

5. Crimes: international terrorism, kidnapping and money laundering???

"It said it was responding to an order issued under the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty. Under the agreement, countries assist each other in investigations such as international terrorism, kidnapping and money laundering".

Seems as though someone distorts the law here -- or is Indymedia alleged to have committed the above mentioned crimes?

[izzie]

6. My God J, Edgar and Nixon are back.

[Ganja Ninja]

7. They never left. n/t