Met closes down anti-police blog

[cory777]

Source: Guardian

Scotland Yard last night forced the closure of an anti-police blog which was being used by disseminate advice to protesters pictured at the student fees demonstration.

The website Fitwatch was suspended after the its hosting company received contact from C011, the Metropolitan's public order branch, stating that the blog was "being used to undertake criminal activities".

The move appears to have taken place after a blog posted on the website gave guidance to students who feared they might be arrested for their involvement in the occupation of the Millbank office complex, which houses the Tory party headquarters.

A largely peaceful march against the proposed increase in tuition fees turned violent on Wednesday when a minority of the 50,000 students targeted Millbank.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/16/student-anti-police-website-closed

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[zenprole]

1. Language!

The Yard asked the ISP to "de-host" the site? Is that what censorship is called these days?

They should ask for proof, before a judge, that a crime had been or was about to be committed.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

7. The police were free to ask, the ISP made the choice

I assume the site will be moved quickly to another host outside of the Yard's sphere of influence. That there was not already a hot spare speaks ill of the webmaster

[Heidi]

2. Recommended.

:kick:

[Suji to Seoul]

3. Very good. . .more governmental interference on the dissemination of ideas

Thought police, here we come. Orwell was off by thirty to forty years.

[Bluenorthwest]

5. Actually Orwell intended 1984 to stand for 1948

Orwell himself was under surveilence when he wrote the book, a fiction about current events in 1948.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

6. Nice Scooby snack.

[Hissyspit]

4. Totalitarian.