arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

Hier vind je de correspondentie met Rackspace over de inbeslaggenomen servers.

http://jebba.blagblagblag.org/index.php?p=107

If we all start to participate in the Freenet-project it will be much harder for to crack down on grassroot media-projects....
http://freenetproject.org/

"The only way to ensure that a democracy will remain effective is to ensure that the government cannot control its population's ability to share information, to communicate. So long as everything we see and hear is filtered, we are not truly free. Freenet's aim is to allow two or more people who wish to share information, to do so."

http://freenetproject.org/index.php?page=philosophy

A friend is a domain name reseller. He hosted more as 150 domains with a UK based hosting company.

One day his hosting company blocked all 'his' sites at once. They wrote: "links have been found leading to inappropriate material, related to groups that could be considered as advocating terrorism or to groups that are in the UK listed or considered as "terrorist" or advocting terrorism".

We requested what domain(s) they were talking about. The owners of some domains had build extended sites. Without any clue where to look for what the hosting company would consider as "inappropriate" it would be very hard or impossible to act appropriately.

The reply (on the phone)to our request was: "We do not want your friend's business anymore. All material will be handed over to the police. We will not allow you to have access in anyway to any site any longer."

Great, some 100 costumers (some had more as 1 domain registered) lost their whole website. Sites they might have been building on for a few years already. Sites that for sure had nothing to do with anything that could (for anyone with a normal mind) be considered or related in whatever way to terrorism.

My friend and I offered (by email, phone and fax) our assistance in "the war on terror". At no avail. Not only our assistance was bluntly rejected, we were criminalized on the spot for something we (my friend) as a reseller had nothing to do with!

In a follow-up phone call (for us our last effort to safe the work of my friend's clients) we talked to a milder person. Without mentioning what he was talking about he said they had had many complains.
A well known zionist group focuses on trying to bring down any site opposed to the bloody policy of Israel, unveiling the truly fascist nature of Zionism and/or related to militant Muslim organizations. That organization, the Haganah, urges its militants to bombard ISP and hosting companies with email complains. All this solely with the aim to close down any site that expresses an opinion that is opposed to theirs. http://www.haganah.org.il/


"EFF is a nonprofit group of passionate people — lawyers, technologists, volunteers, and visionaries — working to protect your digital rights."

The "Electronic Frontier Foundation" was relatively happy when we informed them what had happened in the UK. It is unsure what can be done against such international privately-run and State terrorism.

We do know "Silence like a cancer grows", thus it is our duty to keep up the fight for free expression. With or without a burka!

The request to seize Indymedia servers hosted by a US company in the UK came from the governments of Italy and Switzerland. The servers hosting about 20 Indymedia sites, several internet radio streams and other projects were taken down on 7 October, after an order were issued to one of Indymedia's web hosting services in the US.

According to Italian news agenzy reports and an AFP interview to Joe Parris, the FBI acted complying to Italian and Swiss requests.

Earlier today Rackspace published a statement that they turned over the servers in response to a US Commissioner's subpoena issued pursuant to the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT). The MLAT establishes procedures for countries to assist each other in investigations such as international terrorism, kidnapping, and money laundering. The court prohibits Rackspace from commenting further on this matter

The FBI action is possible only because Indymedia is dependent on a server legally established in the US.
The event shows how vulnerable this situation is. Why did Indymedia make such a curious choice ?

Sommige indymedia-sites zijn al terug online, wel zonder archieven:

http://germany.indymedia.org/ Germany

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/ UK

http://www.midiaindependente.org/ Brazil

http://italy.indymedia.org/index.php Italy

http://pt.indymedia.org/ Portugal

http://euskalherria.indymedia.org/ Basque country

http://poland.indymedia.org/pl/index.shtml Poland



Indymedia Luik heeft een static-pagina:

http://liege.indymedia.org/

Enkele Franse Indymedia's staan tijdelijk op samzidat:

http://lille.indymedia.org/

Nantes is ook, gedeeltelijk terug online:

http://nantes.indymedia.org/

Zijn nog niet terug online:

Antweren West Vlaanderen, Oost Vlaanderen, Ambazonia, Uruguay, Andorra, Western Massachusetts, Nice, Nantes, Lilles, Marseille (all France), Belgrade, Portugal, Prague, Galiza, and the global Indymedia Radio site