[ga] German Police Raid Homes of Wikileaks.de Domain Owner

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  About time IMO, although searching the persons home was
a bit over the top.  It also seems a bit disengenous to use the
excuse of pornographic material suggestion as the reason for
the search.  Me thinks that this is more of a politically 
motivated "Event" as to attempting to enforce selective
censorship.  Will the US be next or joining Australia, the
UK, and now Germany in these sorts of activities?  Me
thinks so unfortunately!

See: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/03/25/0550235

"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
http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1384170793 twitter page, police
have  http://file.sunshinepress.org:54445/wikileaks-de-raid-2009.pdf
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
ttp://wikileaks.org/wiki/Police_raid_home_of_Wikileaks.de_domain_owner_over_censorship_lists
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.

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