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Dutch Judge Cracks Down on Hyperlinks
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.
It seems my site has just become illegal to link to from the Netherlands!
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Thank you Dutch! I was getting tired of having everyone bashing the USA for our stupid legal system. Its great to know that we are not the only idiots on the planet. Thanks for taking some of the heat off of us.
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
What did Germany beat the U.S. in?
Basketball is over, so it isn't that.
American Football hasn't begun yet.
Baseball is going on but I didn't hear anything about it...
Wow it must be some other sport that nobody in the U.S.A. cares about...
Was it some Quake tournament? No because that would have gotten some attention over here in the states, and not to mention the fact that Germany wouldn't stand a chance.
Ahhh it must be hocky. One of those winter sports that Germany is ok at. Wait a second, it can't be hocky because it is in the middle of freakin summer.
It must be a sport that is even lower down the list of coverage and excitement...
Softball? Noboby follows this much, but if Germany beat the U.S.A. in womans softball then congrats to the women of Germany; and to the women of the U.S.A. at least you shave.
Badmitten? Again congrats to the men err women of Germany.
The more I learn about science, the more my faith in God increases.
I always wondered if moderators can tell when a message was posted. Sure, this may have been redudant, but it was the first one posted. Everyone else is redudant, not me. :)
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