German Police Raid Homes of Wikileaks.de Domain Owner

BountyX writes "First and foremost, wikileaks.org is back up after downtime due to server load; however, the German government wants to keep the site down. According to their twitter page, police have raided the home of Wikileaks.de domain owner Theodor Reppe (PDF) over internet censorship lists that were leaked two weeks ago. What the Australian government's secret ACMA internet censorship blacklist has to do with Germany is a mystery. This case is a prime example of multiple governments collaborating in support of censorship." Reader iter8 provides a link to coverage on Wikileaks itself, which says that police searched Reppe's homes in both Dresden and Jena, and adds: "According to police, the reason for the search was 'distribution of pornographic material' and 'discovery of evidence.' Wikileaks has published censorship lists for Australia, Thailand, Denmark and other countries. Included on the lists are references to sites alleged to contain pornography, including child pornography. Wikileaks has not published any images from the sites."

Comments

Re:lemme get this straight

[commodore64_love]

>>>In Germany... they don't need a judge's permission/order for this. If they don't find anything, they can just file a simple 2 page report and be done with it.

"Das Juden Haus ist now empty."
"Die Zigeuner werd deported."

Is that the kind of report the German police file?

Re:lemme get this straight

[furby076]

Wait attempting to acquire/read, let alone posting, of CLASSIFIED documentation is illegal? Why, oh my god, what is this world coming to. Will this new radical law is obviously a failed george bush policy. Because we all know that classified documents, before georgey, were distributed by the gov't to anyone who wanted one....

Re:Information Control!

[cagrin]

Like how my post was labeled "off topic". Ignorance and apathy are two of the most dangerous diseases of our time, and very difficult to cure. Take the Red pill.