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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Kavkaz now based in Finland
2004-10-10
A Web site used by a Chechen warlord to claim responsibility for last month's school siege in Russia has come back online based out of Finland, three weeks after Lithuania shut it down following pressure from Moscow. Nordic telecom operator TeliaSonera said on Saturday it was hosting the site, www.kavkazcenter.net, and that there were no grounds on which it could be closed down.
"Nope. Nope. Can't do it..."
Not until something explodes in Helsinki, anyway...
The Kavkaz Center site was used by Shamil Basayev to claim responsibility for the Beslan siege in southern Russia, where more than 320 people, half of them children, were killed. "Our lawyers and police have checked this during the last 24 hours, and there is no content that would allow us to close the (site)," TeliaSonera spokesman Jyrki Karasvirta said. He said according to Finnish law the site could only be shut if it posted child pornography or racist or bigoted content. "We have an agreement with the client, and we have no legal right to close it," he added. Karasvirta said a company owned the site, but gave no further details.

A note posted on the site said it was experiencing serious funding problems and asked readers for financial help or sponsorship. The Lithuanian state security department blocked Kavkaz Center's site on Sept. 18, under pressure from Moscow, shortly after Basayev posted a statement saying he was behind a wave of attacks in Russia. Among those were the school siege, the near-simultaneous downing of two passenger planes and a bomb attack in Moscow. In his statement posted on the site, Basayev also said his violent campaign for an independent Chechnya would continue.
Posted by:Dan Darling

#7  Child pornography's out of bounds, but child torture, child slaughter, and targeting more children for torture and slaughter are OK. Love those progressive scandinavians.
Posted by: lex   2004-10-10 3:54:55 PM  

#6  ya ever notice the guys that like to dress up as Nazis are usually the pasty-faced pussies that got their asses kicked (and never got chicks) that you remember from school? That dweeb is one of them
Posted by: Frank G   2004-10-10 2:09:11 PM  

#5  Germany has actually won the case against American neo-Nazi Gary Lauck for control the domain name, but of course the content will surely be published under a different name.
Would be easier if Neo-Nazis were classified as terrorists.
Posted by: True German Ally   2004-10-10 1:50:56 PM  

#4  Oh, ick, TGA, that site is a sick one. Yep, time for a DOS there.
Posted by: Steve White   2004-10-10 1:44:03 PM  

#3  Same policies could apply to this site:

http://www.federalrepublicofgermany.biz/

Hosted in the U.S.
Posted by: True German Ally   2004-10-10 12:57:15 PM  

#2  This is how ISPs police their biz - there is, indeed, such a thing as the Internet Death Penalty: when no one will route traffic to you or accept connections from you... as long as they'll police themselves, then no legal beagles need to get involved. But if they don't, if they give the sickos and haters and jihadis and spammers a home, well then, shut the entire company down - and demand action from every country's legilslative and police entities to cooperate - or else. Access can be cut off at any agreed-upon level, even countries.
Posted by: .com   2004-10-10 9:55:41 AM  

#1  "Nordic telecom operator TeliaSonera said on Saturday it was hosting the site, www.kavkazcenter.net, and that there were no grounds on which it could be closed down."

Hmmm...but if every respectable IP provider put your address on their block list on their routers and nothing is able to be transmitted from your IP cause no one is accepting message traffic, the effect will be the same and your other customers would have to find another server to operate from.
Posted by: Don   2004-10-10 9:00:28 AM  

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