Friday, October 08, 2004

Still no mainstream coverage of indymendia seizure

[homeland insecurity] Yesterday, October 7th, the FBI seized server disks containing the files for indymedia, an alternative, not-for-profit news reporting entity. Now, more than a day later, there is no mention in the mainstream media of the seizure, or the First Amendment issues associated with the seizure. Daily Kos picked up the story a few hours ago, but Yahoo has only run the piece in Australia and NZ, and CNN, of course, has nothing on the story. AP has posted the piece that has been picked up by some of the smaller news entities, but it is buried by the Tallahassee Democrat in the Industries section. Imagine the uproar if the disks were seized for NBC or ABC News. (CBS wouldn't matter because it's all made up anyway...) Oh, and the firm who handed the disks over like good patriots? Rackspace. Just watch how fast the Slashdotters relocate their accounts to other hosts.

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