The administrator of Blogme.gr, a Greek blog aggregation website had his house raided, his hard drive seized and was himself arrested by the Greek cybercrime division last week, 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 outraged response by Greek bloggers was immediate and unprecedented, reaching in the hundreds of posts within two days of the raid.(Via Slashdot)
The developing story coincides with the Internet Governance Forum being hosted in Athens this week, to be attended by Internet luminaries, entrepreneurs and activists like Vint Cerf, Bob Kahn and Joi Ito and featuring panels on Openness and Freedom of Expression.
Could something like this happen in the UAE? I doubt it.
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^^^ great insider's view
As The Sun put it several years back when a load of Brits were arrested in Greece for photographing aircraft:
Greece is a tinpot, shambles of a place.
a blessing in tragedy
Why exactly does arabtimes.com piss people off in .ae ?
Am looking at it atm, but err its in arabic and not sure why it pisses people off... well apart from the CIA recruitment banner in the middle of the page, that may rub some people the wrong way.
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