Posted on 10/10/2004 5:44:21 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A website billed as a grassroots news source for the anti-globalization movement and other issues said one of its Web servers was shut down after the FBI (news - web sites) served a subpoena.
The Independent Media Center said the FBI issued an order to hosting company Rackspace "to remove physically one of our servers."
The FBI acknowledged that a subpoena had been issued but said it was at the request of Italian and Swiss authorities.
"It is not an FBI operation," FBI spokesman Joe Parris told AFP.
"Through a legal assistance treaty, the subpoena was on behalf of a third country."
The FBI spokesman said there was no US investigation but that the agency cooperated under the terms of an international treaty on law enforcement.
Rackspace, a US Web hosting company with offices in London, said it complied with a court order "pursuant to a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, which establishes procedures for countries to assist each other in investigations such as international terrorism, kidnapping and money laundering." The company declined to elaborate.
"The order was so short-term that Rackspace had to give away our hard drives in the UK," the Independent Media Center said.
Italian news reports said access to Indymedia had been cut as a result of an FBI operation at US and British locations.
Mauro Bulgarelli, a member of Italy's Green party, called it a "provocation and intimidate effort" against the alternative media.
The website was established by organizations during the 1999 World Trade Organization (news - web sites) protests claiming the mainstream media failed to adequately cover the news.
It calls itself "a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate and passionate tellings of the truth."
Indymedia said in a statement it "had been asked last month by the FBI to remove a story about Swiss undercover police from one of the websites hosted at Rackspace."
The statement added, "It is not known, however, whether Thursday's order is related to that incident since the order was issued to Rackspace and not to Indymedia. According to Rackspace, they 'cannot provide Indymedia with any information regarding the order.'"
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We're working on internet time here...Isn't this a little old?
The irony of supporting a "world court"... and now this happens. Priceless!
Intriguing.....!
It couldnt of happened to a better website. Every post was racist and full of hate.
That is interesting John. Could a complaint be filed on them?
They're up from their naps.
Teresa Heinz Kerry: Bag Lady for the Radical Left
"..The antiwar movement often boasted that MoveOn.org and the radical website Indymedia provided them “alternate media coverage.” Indymedia, an enormous news and events bulletin board with local pages in most of the world’s major cities, provided a vital link for radical activists often with violent agendas to coordinate their protests. Indymedia received $376,000 from the Tides Foundation..."
According to their chat rooms, they posted pictures of what they claimed to be undercover police officers, full face views, on several sister sites. They were asked to blank the faces or take the pictures down. They did on some sites but not on all.
The pictures compromised the men and whatever mission they were working on. Of course, they see nothing wrong with that, freedom of speech and all.
This was the same site that posted the picture of our troops with swastikas on their arms, remember?
wow...is the october surprise far behind..
Boys and girls, this is why you need to keep current backups.
I did all I wanted to last year. I installed crap flood protection on FR, rendering the DDoS ineffective, and then filed complaints. One company (who provided Internet to kbiz.ca--the website originator of the DDoS attack) followed up and compelled the woman owner of kbiz.ca to remove Free Republic from her list of targets (though she continued to distribute software which attacked FR.) I can only imagine the indymedia operators laughing at an infidel's complaints, so naturally, nothing came to be of them.
Well funded scum. Teresa Heinz Kerry, Soros and others through numerous Foundations keep these people well heeled while they try to maintain the illusion of Grass Roots appeal.
Too bad the FBI and Justice Department don't land on them. Indymedia has a strange cast of characters. They are basically hate America anarchists funded by people like Soros, Teresa Heinz Kerry and others through their foundations.
In the case of Soros he wants to diminish US power and Teresa Heinz Kerry wants to diminish Bush. The whole thing is a cynical arrangement worthy of the KGB and just as sinister.
Are these the people who published all the personal information about delegates to the Republican convention?
I don't know, but no surprise if they would do something like that.
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