[lbo-talk] Photos May Be Cause Of Indymedia Server Seizure

Leigh Meyers leighcmeyers at yahoo.com
Sun Oct 10 16:13:42 PDT 2004


Feds seize Indymedia servers By John Leyden Published Friday 8th October 2004 18:44Â GMT http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/08/fbi_indymedia_raids/

<snip> While Indymedia is not exactly sure what prompted the action, the group does have one strong idea. A French Indymedia site last month posted photos of what it believed to be undercover Swiss police officers photographing protesters at a French event. Indymedia received a request from the FBI to pull those photos down, as they "revealed personal information" about the undercover police, said Indymedia press officer Hep Sano.

Rackspace appeared to confirm that the photos were an issue with the FBI. <snip> http://www.theregister.co.uk/ ====================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20041010/aba54d26/attachment.htm>



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