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Dutch Judge Cracks Down on Hyperlinks

Posted by michael on from the deep-sigh dept.

The webzine Radikal (mirrored in Holland, because it has been banned in Germany) published several articles on disabling railroad trains (in the context of preventing shipments of nuclear materials); the German national railroad discovered it, and the fun has been going on ever since. Rejo Zenger writes "Today a dutch judge ordered Indymedia NL on the request of the Deutsche Bahn to remove some links from a page on their website. These links were pointing to the mirrors of Radikal sites. A few of these sites were containing two articles that have been forbidden in court before. The links were indirect links (surface links) instead of direct ones to the articles (deeplinks). So, none of the links was pointing to the offending articles directly! The judge "orders Indymedia immediately after receiving this sentence to remove and to keep removed the hyperlinks, which are placed on (a) website(s) under the control of Indymedia, if those hyperlinks lead directly or indirectly to the Radikal articles [...]". This is BAD. As almost all links indirectly point to the Radikal articles we can abolish the web now. The announcement, Dutch with English to follow shortly. The decision of the judge (dutch only)." Indymedia's press release (English) covers it pretty well. Update: 06/21 19:54 GMT by M : My summary in the first sentence has been corrected.

3 of 385 comments (clear)

  1. No indirect links? by phil+reed · · Score: 3, Funny

    Better drop that link to Google then.

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    ...phil
    "For a list of the ways which technology has failed to improve our quality of life, press 3."
  2. Re:dutch != deutsch by JWW · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah the Netherlands, don't they have the loose drug and sex laws?

    But hyperlinks, oh my they had better ban those.

    Hypocrites.

  3. Re:No need, since Google already censored themselv by SisterRay · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, not correct:

    When trying the search for "kleiner leitfaden" (which is German for "handy guide") in Google Groups you will go to here , then choose the third message and look at the Complete Thread. You will go to here , than scroll up and you'll see one of the forbidden articles.

    Then, try the same "kleiner leitfaden" in Google WWW. You will go to here. . The seventh link is pointing to here and again you will have the article in front of you.

    Then, enter the title of the forbidden Indymedia site in Google WWW. The first link, try the Cache: here

    Enough said.