The Seattle FBI made a friendly visit to the 'registered agent' of the Seattle IMC, in regard to this stuff too. He played friendly and dumb and asked them, gee, do you have the URL of the offending post? They said, "What's a you are el?" He said, Well, where's the post? They said, "It's on the indymedia website, we said that!"
Um. But he basically said he didn't know anything and it had nothing to do with Seattle IMC, and they said, okeydokey thanks a lot and left. It wasn't a big deal or anything. (I have no idea if he's shared this story with anyone else, hopefully he won't mind me posting it here, if he sees it!)
But when I heard that it was a French site on a UK server, allegedly hosting illegal pictures of Swiss cops, with the FBI trying (without much success) to gather 'evidence' on another continent entirely---yeah, what I thought was "Now THAT'S globalization.' (Which countries laws have they allegedly violated anyway? Who the hell knows? Probably not even the FBI.)
I still don't entirely understand how the FBI can make a UK ISP turn over the hard drives, unless I'm misunderstanding what's going on where. It is somewhat confusing.
Posted by: Jonathan Nil at October 8, 2004 01:26 AM