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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.
Derailing Nuclear Waste trains is hardly a common crime
Extraordinary circumstances call for extraordinary measures.
Political violence has been the major tool in the journey along our road to freedom whether you like to admit it or not. More blood will spill, that is the only guarantee.
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
> Yeah the Netherlands, don't they have the loose drug and sex laws?
Exactly, and a nice political system with many parties to choose from, and religious freedom, and free (as in freedom) criminals because they don't have enough cells to lock 'em up. But I suppose the new fascist government is going to end all that...
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.