Indymedia Server Seized By UK Police, Again

timbrown writes with word that "On 22 January 2009, Kent Police seized an Indymedia server hosted by Manchester-based colocation facility UK Grid and run by the alternative news platform Indymedia UK. The server was taken in relation to comments on an article regarding the convictions in the recent Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) trial. Seven activists were sentenced to a total of 50 years in prison." The complete story is worth reading; timbrown continues: "I'm posting this as a concerned UK administrator who hosts a number of sites. The message appears to be clear: the UK establishment does not want political content, legitimate or otherwise, hosted from these shores. The message has been noted, however free speech must be supported even where it may not be agreeable."

Comments

Re:An analogy

[CmdrGravy]

I agree to an extent but you have to consider the difference between posting personal details to slashdot and to indymedia and the motivations for doing so. Most /.'ers are not rabid foaming at the mouth loonies and they don't have a history of relentlessly hounding people who disagree with them. I expect most readers of Indymedia are equally law abiding but there is obviously a small group of people who may have read those personal details and used them to engage in a criminal campaign of intimidation.

The fact that the police aren't in the habit of seizing ./ servers whenever someones details are posted but have seized this one seems to me to show they responding thoughtfully and responsibly and not engaging in some random campaign to shut down sites based on some sort of political motivation.

No longer suprised

[Jaysyn]

More daily fascism from our friends in the UK.