[governance] Blogger arrested in Greece

[Vittorio Bertola]

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]<-----
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