FBI Raids Indymedia

[J.A. Terranson]

Unfortunately, which the Angry Little Fascist Midget Fuck (formerly known
as George W. Bush) may have started this ball rolling, the Tall Fascist
NotAtAll Midget Fuck (formerly known as Kerry) will not do anything to
curb this kind of illegal and immoral behaviour if elected.

They are both within a few blocks of me for tomorrows debate.  Will
someone please just nuke the whole 1 mile square block and get it over
with?  My coordinates are in DNS ("loc").

<disclaimer> This is a WISH, not a threat.  I am way too much of a pussy
to just do it myself, but would die happy knowing I was sharing a fireball
with these two evil fuckers...
</disclaimer>




On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Eric Cordian wrote:

> Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 00:01:59 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Eric Cordian <emc at artifact.psychedelic.net>
> To: cypherpunks at minder.net
> Subject: FBI Raids Indymedia
>
>
> According to http://www.indymedia.it/, the FBI seized Indymedia's servers
> from their host, Rackspace.
>
> > Thursday Oct 7 2004, at 6 PM, FBI issued an order to Rackspace in the US
> > (Indymedia's provider with offices in the US and London) to remove
> > physically two of our servers. The order was so short term that
> > Rackspace had to give away our hard drives in the UK. The servers
> > hosted numerous local IMCs, including italy.indymedia.org. If you find
> > a site is down: that might be the reason The reason why the hard drives
> > were taken are unknown.
>
> And at http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/10/08/1097089554894.html
>
> -----
>
> The FBI has issued an order to hosting provider Rackspace in the US,
> ordering it to turn over two of the servers hosting the Independent Media
> Centre's websites in the UK, a statement from the group says.
>
> Rackspace has offices in the US and the UK. Independent Media Center,
> which is better known as Indymedia, was set up in 1999 to provide
> grassroots coverage of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) protests in
> Seattle.
>
> Rackspace complied with the FBI order, without first notifying Indymedia,
> and turned over Indymedia's server in the UK. This affects over 20
> Indymedia sites worldwide, the group said.
>
> Indymedia said it did not know why the order had been issued as it was
> issued to Rackspace. Rackspace told some of the group's volunteers "they
> cannot provide Indymedia with any information regarding the order." ISPs
> have received gag orders in similar situations which prevent them from
> updating the parties involved on what is happening.
>
> Indymedia said a second server was taken down at Rackspace. This provided
> streaming radio to several radio stations, BLAG (a Linux distribution),
> and a handful of miscellanous things.
>
> In August the US Secret Service used a subpoena in an attempt to disrupt
> the New York city Independent Media Center before the Republican National
> COnvention by trying to get IP logs from an ISP in the US and the
> Netherlands.
>
> Last month the US Federal Communications Commission shut down community
> radio stations around the US. Two weeks ago the FBI asked Indymedia to
> remove a post on the Nantes IMC that had a photo of some undercover Swiss
> police and IMC volunteers in Seattle were visited by the FBI on the same
> issue.
>
> Indymedia said the list of local media collectives affected included
> Ambazonia, Uruguay, Andorra, Poland, Western Massachusetts, Nice, Nantes,
> Lilles, Marseille (all France), Euskal Herria (Basque Country), Liege,
> East and West Vlaanderen, Antwerpen (all Belgium), Belgrade, Portugal,
> Prague, Galiza, Italy, Brazil, UK, part of the Germany site, and the
> global Indymedia Radio site.
>
>

-- 
Yours,

J.A. Terranson
sysadmin at mfn.org
0xBD4A95BF

  "...justice is a duty towards those whom you love and those whom you do
  not.  And people's rights will not be harmed if the opponent speaks out
  about them."      Osama Bin Laden
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  "There aught to be limits to freedom!"    George Bush
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Which one scares you more?