German Police Raid Homes of Wikileaks.de Domain Owner

BountyX writes "First and foremost, wikileaks.org is back up after downtime due to server load; however, the German government wants to keep the site down. According to their twitter page, police have raided the home of Wikileaks.de domain owner Theodor Reppe (PDF) over internet censorship lists that were leaked two weeks ago. What the Australian government's secret ACMA internet censorship blacklist has to do with Germany is a mystery. This case is a prime example of multiple governments collaborating in support of censorship." Reader iter8 provides a link to coverage on Wikileaks itself, which says that police searched Reppe's homes in both Dresden and Jena, and adds: "According to police, the reason for the search was 'distribution of pornographic material' and 'discovery of evidence.' Wikileaks has published censorship lists for Australia, Thailand, Denmark and other countries. Included on the lists are references to sites alleged to contain pornography, including child pornography. Wikileaks has not published any images from the sites."

Re:Unbelievable...

[thhamm]

Many posts so far and still no mention of Nazis

we don't need nazis anymore over here. we can fuck up just by ourselves now.

Eh?

[mokus000]

... however, the German government wants to keep the site down. According to their twitter page, ...

The German government has a twitter page? ;-)

Why should that be a discouragement?

[denzacar]

Sure, I'll probably go on a government watch list, but the way things are going we either all already are or soon will be, so why should that be a discouragement?

Because the list is probably numbered, graded and color-coded?

Re:lemme get this straight

[Nursie]

you are one of those scary people who believe everything the gov't does = evil.

Until such time as the western governments stop being evil all the time, I think that's a perfectly reasonable position to take.

Re:lemme get this straight

[iknowcss]

Raise your hand if you just had to mouse over that link to see where it pointed ...

Re:I have to ask

[Arancaytar]

In Soviet Russia KGB tracks leak back and shoots you.

Oh come on. How can you pass it up?

"In Soviet Russia, KGB makes you leaky."

Re:lemme get this straight

[mdwh2]

Right, but apart from education, social security, roads and the Internet, what have the Government ever done for us?

Re:lemme get this straight

[cayenne8]

"Right, but apart from education, social security, roads and the Internet, what have the Government ever done for us?"

The aqueduct?

Re:lemme get this straight

[linhares]

you are one of those scary people who believe everything the gov't does = evil. Until such time as the western governments stop being evil all the time, I think that's a perfectly reasonable position to take.

I have to disagree profoundly. I think the governments are here to help us out.

Respectfully, Dr. Linhares, Senior Vice President, AIG