[governance] Blogger arrested in Greece

[Nyangkwe Agien Aaron]

Hi all

I agree that the issue to be raised by the civil society at the
current session at Athens. For an impact to be felt,  each and every
one taking the floor should hammer on the issue in stronger words.
Aaron

On 10/29/06, karen banks <karenb at gn.apc.org> wrote:
> 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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