[governance] Blogger arrested in Greece

[karen banks]

hi vittorio

thanks for this - i think it would be impossible not to raise this issue ;)

karen

At 19:46 28/10/2006, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
>Hello,
>
>as not everyone might have had this piece of news yet, apparently two
>days ago the Greek authorities have arrested for one night the owner of
>the blog aggregator blogme.gr, since one of the feeds he was showing was
>linking to a mockery website against a controversial Greek TV
>evangelist. As this person couldn't sue the mockery website (hosted in
>the US), he sued the aggregator instead.
>
>See Kieren McCarthy's take about this here:
>http://kierenmccarthy.co.uk/2006/10/28/greek-blog-aggregator-arrested/
>Also some random blog's translation of the facts into English:
>http://naftilos.blogspot.com/2006/10/blogmegr-like-suing-google.html
>and the Technorati dump, if anyone knows Greek:
>http://www.technorati.com/search/blogme.gr
>
>Please beware that this is all n-th hand information, it needs to be
>confirmed (if anyone knows, please post additional sources), but at the
>same time there might be protesters from the local civil society, and it
>might be the case for civil society speakers in the opening sessions to
>raise the issue.
>
>Thanks,
>--
>vb.             [Vittorio Bertola - v.bertola [a] bertola.eu.org]<-----
>http://bertola.eu.org/  <- Prima o poi...
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