FBI orders UK ISP to hand over IMC Server

Rackspace, a London ISP which hosts UK Indymedia's server received a

federal order earlier today to turn over all hardware hosting Indymedia

websites to the FBI. The server hosted UK Indymedia as well as numerous

local IMCs including Belgium and African imcs, Palestine, UK, Germany,

and Brasil, Italy, Uruguay, Poland, Belgrade, Portugal, and more. As of

yet the reasons behind the demand are unknown, but it is suspected that

it has to do with an FBI request to remove a post on the Nantes IMC that

had a photo of undercover Swiss police. The FBI claimed there were

threats and personal information contained within the post, a charge

that was untrue. The undercover police photographed on the page were

photographing protesters. Rackspace is a United States based company,

however they also provide colocation facilities in the UK, where these

servers were located. Rackspace is currently building another server to

replace the one lost which will be online shortly, and have apologized

for the abruptness of the turnover, explaining that they are "required

to comply with all federal orders of this nature".

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