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Indymedia Server Raided by FBI

Posted by samzenpus on from the need-to-know-basis dept.

jaromil writes "Today at about 18:00 CET FBI raided the indymedia servers hosted by Rackspace both in US and England. At present, the italian indymedia and numerous other local IMC websites are obscured, while the reasons why the hard drives were taken are still unknown."

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  1. Fanatical Support™ by NatureBoy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess that's what Rackspace means by Fanatical Support(TM)

  2. Raided? by bdesham · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...but I thought the servers were RAIDed already?

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  3. About time! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Those sites were run by anti-american leftist liberals. The FBI needs to crack down on ANY and ALL leftist web sites that spread pro-terrorist, anti-american messages all over. We need more action, not more talk. Go FBI!

    1. Re:About time! by Grishnakh · · Score: 4, Funny

      This is absolutely correct. Now that someone has attacked us, we need to throw out all this "free speech" and "personal liberties" crap. It's more important that we be safe, rather than free, because the government knows what's best for us, and will keep us safe, as long as we do everything the authorities want and don't hold any differing opinions.

      Face it, life for us will be much better when we all have mandatory implants and the government can track us wherever we go, and can make sure none of us are doing anything that's not approved. Anyone who doesn't go along with this will be sent to a re-education camp, where they'll be turned into happy, productive workers who spend their free time watching Survivor XXIII and attending the official government Church.

      Keep America Safe, no matter the cost. Bush Cheney 2004.

  4. Maybe the FBI... by Osrin · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... just needed hard drives, Government budgets are tight.

    Not everything is a conspiracy.

  5. Re:Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press! by ZB+Mowrey · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hey, shut the fuck up already. Don't give them any ideas. ;) The last thing we need is the FBI deciding that google's servers contain Bad Things(TM) and Must Be Looked At(TM). Maybe MSN's search servers have some crap, but I'm positive ;) ;) that google's don't.

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  6. Re:Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press! by KagatoLNX · · Score: 4, Funny

    Whatever dude. Peace at all cost. Everybody be pacifists or I'm gonna start busting some heads!

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  7. Re:Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press! by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 5, Funny

    The facts are clearly biased against Bush.

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  8. Re:Cou de Gras? by Soruk · · Score: 3, Funny

    Coup de grace, please! It has nothing to do with being fat.

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  9. Re:Kinda short on information by Grishnakh · · Score: 4, Funny

    You forget, Britain is our little puppet now.

    If the British people don't like this, they should be doing something about it such as voting appropriately.

  10. What better way to stop them from hating us by Aexia · · Score: 3, Funny

    than by removing the very reason they hate us!

    It's a brilliant move on President Bush's part and I for one support him 100%!

  11. Re:Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press! by fenix+down · · Score: 4, Funny

    Tell that to some of the victims of the protests during the RNC.
    So what, a sinister plot to give Dick Cheney a heart attack by forcing him to look at lesbians with hairy legs?

    What about the riot groups that have broken into RNC campaign centers throughout the country?
    Yes, they left some $2000 Sony laptops in plain view through a big store-front window in a shitty strip mall in Bellvue, and they got stolen! And not just by any black teenagers, black teenagers that don't like Bush! What are the chances of that! Call the motherfucking Secret Service, the President's been fucking shot!

  12. Re:Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press! by SirWinston · · Score: 3, Funny

    > But you get that when your foreign policy is "Fuck the earth".

    But Gaia looks so sexy in a thong...

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