Italienische Verhaeltnisse (fwd)

[Marloth _at__ t-online.de (Heinz Marloth)]

Liebe KollegInnen,

  UZS106 _at__ IBM.rhrz.uni-bonn.de schrieb
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> ENGLISH TRANSLATION:
>                            Seized!
>
> Saturday, June 27th at 10.30am the server of Islands in the Net (the
> Italian no-profit association that offers communication spaces to social
> centres, free radios and collectives of the movement) has been seized by
> the Postal Police of Bologna. Starting from now, thus, and who knows for
> how long, the server at http://www.ecn.org will be down, the web pages will
> not be available anymore and will not work the email services that
> permitted in the last years the construction of a strong solidarity network
> among several self-organized collectives.
>
> The seizure happened in the rooms of the Internet provider that hosted the
> server, it was ordered by the State Prosecutor of Vicenza Paolo Pecori and
> was executed by officers of the Postal Police of Bologna.
>
> It is a 'preventive' seizure claiming the crime of 'prolonged defamation'
> toward a travel agency. The reason for the seizure would be the web
> publication of a message posted by an Italian collective, accurate
> transcription of a printed flyer publicly distributed. This message was
> first sent to a mailing list (cslist) hosted by the server of Islands in
> the Net and then published on the web through the usual automatic procedure.
>
> Although the seizure order still does not explicitly mention any person
> formally charged with the crime of defamation, the judge that ordered this
> action evidently holds Islands in the Net liable for the content of
> anything hosted by its Internet server. The liability of the providers for
> the contents they carry is actually a very hot topic worldwide still far
> from a viable solution. However, the main direction is that Internet
> providers should NOT being hold liable for the contents they carry, at
> least on grounds both of technical feasibility and commercial suitability.
>
> The order of seizure of the entire server, furthermore, seems
> exceptionally harmful because it hits a service used by hundreds of users
> in Italy and abroad, completely unrelated to the events that conducted to
> the charge, and that are suddenly deprived of an indispensable
> communication medium.
>
> We are currently analyzing the situation in order to find the best
> solutions to what seems to us an extremely serious event that will, in any
> case, be known far and wide.
>
> We inform that the web server www.ecn.org, all the mailing lists and all
> the e-mail addresses hosted by the server are currently down. We are
> working to set up a backup server as soon as possible.
>
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>
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