Politician Forces German Wikipedia Off the Net

Stephan Schulz writes "A German Member of parliament for a left-wing party, Lutz Heilmann, has obtained a preliminary injunction against the local chapter of the Wikimedia foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland e.V., forbidding the forwarding of the popular http://wikipedia.de to the proper http://de.wikipedia.org. Apparently Heilmann is not happy with the fact that his Wikipedia article (English version) contains information on his work for the former GDR Stasi, the much-hated internal secret service. Wikimedia Germany displays a page explaining the situation, and has announced that it will file an objection to get the injunction lifted. The German Wikipedia has more than 800,000 pages, and is hosted, like all Wikimedia projects, by the Florida-based Wikimedia Foundation, and hence beyond the effective reach of at least German politicians and judges."

Comments

Oops

[sakdoctor]

Thankfully for Lutz Heilmann, who formerly worked for the Stasi, attempting to censor information does not cause it to be widely publicized.

There should be a name for that.

Re:Oops

[Tubal-Cain]

Stasiand effect?

Re:So what's the problem?

[wild_quinine]

So what part of that is he claiming is illegal?

The defamation he's about to recieve on his wikipedia page.

He successfully took down another site

[cjfs]

... his own.

Please contact the server administrator, [no address given]

Re:Mr. Heilmann, you should talk to Mrs. Streisand

[narcberry]

I dunno, Hitler may have said he was a socialist, but he didn't throw very many parties. I'd say he wasn't a people person, but I did not know him personally.

Re:Mr. Heilmann, you should talk to Mrs. Streisand

[Tony Hoyle]

Only an american could describe hitler as left wing....

Re:Mr. Heilmann, you should talk to Mrs. Streisand

[Heddahenrik]

The divided states of North America
The barely united queendom of small Britain and some part not really on Ireland
The party's one party state of China
The secular dictatorship of Iran