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| German court orders part of Wikipedia off-line |
| 2006-01-20 |
| The German-language version of the Web-based encyclopedia Wikipedia remained off-line Friday, following a court order barring the German chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation as part of a lawsuit filed by the family of a dead hacker. Visitors to the site http://www.wikipedia.de were greeted by a statement from Wikipedia Deutschland e.V. informing them they were required by law to remove the site and promising the group's lawyers were taking "every possible step to again bring you uncomplicated access to a the free encyclopedia Wikipedia." A Berlin court ordered the site pulled on Tuesday, after the family of the German hacker known as "Tron," whose real name is Boris F., sued the Wikimedia Foundation to prevent them from publishing the real name of their son, who was found hanged in a park in 1998. Free speech on the Internet will be safe when it is under UN control |
| Posted by:Nimble Spemble |