Friday, October 08, 2004

FBI Seized IndyMeida servers in UK

Nazi's?

6. Controlled Mass Media - Sometimes the media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.


Atlanta Independent Media Center (((i))): newswire/33330: PRESS RELEASE: FBI Seizes Indymedia Servers in the UK Current rating: 0
by Indymedia Global Site
07 Oct 2004
Thursday morning, US authorities issued a federal order to Rackspace ordering them to hand over information hosted on Indymedia web servers to the FBI. Rackspace, which provides hosting services for more that 20 Indymedia sites at its London facility, complied by turning over two Indymedia servers to federal authorities, effectively removing those sites from the internet.