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Politician Forces German Wikipedia Off the Net

Posted by kdawson on from the inconvenient-truth dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Mr. Heilmann, you should talk to Mrs. Streisand by OeLeWaPpErKe · · Score: 1, Troll

    You mean like the USSR ? Lefty politics necessitate totalitarianism. After all, by default people trade. Communism and socialism can only be imposed by force of arms, unlike capitalism.

  2. Re:Mr. Heilmann, you should talk to Mrs. Streisand by OeLeWaPpErKe · · Score: 0, Troll

    His speeches about left-wing politics were about how those movements were really infiltrataion attempts by the USSR aimed at conquering Germany with minimal fight. You might care to actually check them out.

    Unfortunately, at least in a few cases, he was right about that. They had no intrest in peace, they just wanted the red army to not meet resistance.

    You see, socialism necessitates totalitarianism. Absolute power. And you can't have TWO people with absolute power, now can you ?

  3. Re:Mr. Heilmann, you should talk to Mrs. Streisand by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    maybe he is but you know what they say - sometimes children say the most insightful things.

  4. Re:Mr. Heilmann, you should talk to Mrs. Streisand by aproposofwhat · · Score: 0, Troll

    No - even if he is 14 years old, his argument is still true.

    You do not have the right not to be offended, full stop.

    You do have the right not to be discriminated against in matters that affect you physically or financially, but people saying bad things that you don't like?

    Piss off, you sanctimonious twat - it's idiots like you that make liberal ideas seem stupid, because you are.

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