Greek Blog Aggregator Arrested for RSS Linking
In a very interesting turn of events, the administrator of a Greek RSS aggregating service blogme.gr got sued, arrested and jailed by the Greek cybercrime division for hosting a link to a blog with offending content, after having been served with a libel lawsuit without prior notice, because a public figure was offended by a satirical blog that was linked to by his site. The Greek blogging community has come out in force to condemn this recent development……more….
It appears that a Greek public/political figure, whose name has not been disclosed as yet, used his political connection to prosecute the search engine for what he/she regarded as slander in one of its listed blogs.
We in Pakistan, especially Omer Alvie and myself who are the administrators of the Pakistani Blog Aggregator Bloggers.pk have to wonder what could happen if the Pakistani Government starts to find offensive sites listed on our aggregator to which we have no control as the content is produced and published by independent Pakistani bloggers and not by our aggregator, if confronted with such a question, my response would be honestly shrug it off as I truly believe in standing up for free speech regardless of any consequences which may lie afoot.
We as Pakistani Bloggers join arms united with all Greek bloggers in protesting against this arrest, join the cause and spread the word on your blog as well
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[...] On behalf of all Pakistani bloggers we would like to join hands with Mahmood Al-Yousif and protest against the censorship of his blog. I also feel that it is all the more reason when events like this in Bahrain or in Greece where I then feel the urge to step up my efforts to take Don’t Block the Blog from a Pakistan centric organisation to become a more global platform, condemning all forms of censorship anywhere in the world (am seriously looking for volunteers who would be willing to help jointly develop such a platform) [...]
[...] Τι ÆÉνΠÄοÅ ενÎνοÅν μαζί μα για Äην ÅÀÌθεÃη ÄοÃ… blogme.gr και οι bloggers ÄοÃ… ΠακιÃĀάν [...]
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