[Foundation-l] Re: Indymedia and FBI

[Yann Forget]

Hi,

Le Monday 11 October 2004 02:50, Delirium a écrit :
> In case anyone is still following up to this, it turns out that the
> server seizure was ordered by the Swiss and Italian governments, who
> requested that the FBI carry it out as it was hosted by a
> US-headquartered company (Rackspace). The FBI apparently is bound by a
> legal assistance treaty it has with the two European governments, so
> honored the request.
>
> Unwieldy URL:
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1509&ncid=738&e=6&u=/afp/20
>041008/tc_afp/us_internet_justice

What's disturbing in this story is that this treaty which is made to fight 
"international terrorism, kidnapping and money laundering" is subverted for 
dealing with a political issue. Indymedia might be wrong, but using against 
them this kind of treaty made for criminal cases really endangers free speech 
and democracy.

How this is different that what the Chinese government does?

> -Mark

Yann
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