Politician Forces German Wikipedia Off the Net

Posted by kdawson on Saturday November 15, 2008 @10:51AM 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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Re:Mr. Heilmann, you should talk to Mrs. Streisand by OeLeWaPpErKe · 2008-11-15 12:34 · 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.