Politician Forces German Wikipedia Off the Net 569
Stephan Schulz writes "A German Member of parliament for a left-wing party, Lutz Heilmann, has obtained a preliminary injunction against the local chapter of the Wikimedia foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland e.V., forbidding the forwarding of the popular http://wikipedia.de to the proper http://de.wikipedia.org. Apparently Heilmann is not happy with the fact that his Wikipedia article (English version) contains information on his work for the former GDR Stasi, the much-hated internal secret service. Wikimedia Germany displays a page explaining the situation, and has announced that it will file an objection to get the injunction lifted. The German Wikipedia has more than 800,000 pages, and is hosted, like all Wikimedia projects, by the Florida-based Wikimedia Foundation, and hence beyond the effective reach of at least German politicians and judges."
Oops (Score:5, Funny)
Thankfully for Lutz Heilmann, who formerly worked for the Stasi, attempting to censor information does not cause it to be widely publicized.
There should be a name for that.
Re:Oops (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So what's the problem? (Score:5, Funny)
So what part of that is he claiming is illegal?
The defamation he's about to recieve on his wikipedia page.
He successfully took down another site (Score:5, Funny)
... his own [lutz-heilmann.info].
Please contact the server administrator, [no address given]
Reliably sourced and encyclopedic? (Score:2, Funny)
Now that he's going to be America's next Pres, you can argue that just about anything more than what's on his breakfast table is encyclopedic, but without reliable sources it won't stay on Wikipedia.
Get it on CNN or even a local newspaper and you can put it on Wikipedia. Well, until you get into an edit war then Wikifacts yeilds to Wikitruth, which is whichever side can out-revert the other without getting on the wrong side of the arbitration committee.
Re:Oops (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Mr. Heilmann, you should talk to Mrs. Streisand (Score:5, Funny)
I dunno, Hitler may have said he was a socialist, but he didn't throw very many parties. I'd say he wasn't a people person, but I did not know him personally.
Re:Mr. Heilmann, you should talk to Mrs. Streisand (Score:5, Funny)
Only an american could describe hitler as left wing....
Re:Mr. Heilmann, you should talk to Mrs. Streisand (Score:5, Funny)
The barely united queendom of small Britain and some part not really on Ireland
The party's one party state of China
The secular dictatorship of Iran
Re:All doubts are gone (Score:1, Funny)
People may have doubted whether a former DDR Stasi employee would reform or continue with old ways of treating the public. Now all questions about this particular thug have evaporated.
Dance Dance Revolution?
Re:Mr. Heilmann, you should talk to Mrs. Streisand (Score:4, Funny)
"East Yemen; isn't that a democracy too?"
"Its full name is 'The People's Democractic Republic of East Yemen' "
"Oh, I see, so it's a communist dictatorship then"
-Sir Humphrey Appleby and Sir Richard Wharton, Yes Prime Minister, "A Victory for Democracy"
Re:Mr. Heilmann, you should talk to Mrs. Streisand (Score:3, Funny)
Huh? You lost me at united.