alright, then
ladies and gentlemen, please step away from the scene for a moment so I can wrap some police line do not cross yellow tape around all this.
if you want, you can always visit me at http://noonehearsyascream.blogspot.com/
it's new, it's different and after only a few days, I'm already having fun with it. and this is the most important of writing, right? having fun!
yes, it'll be a bit weird. and no, it's not my life as it's happening right this moment. but I'd lie if I pretended it doesn't have anything to do with my life. it's a part of me, in a way. ;o)
if you want, you can always visit me at http://noonehearsyascream.blogspot.com/
it's new, it's different and after only a few days, I'm already having fun with it. and this is the most important of writing, right? having fun!
yes, it'll be a bit weird. and no, it's not my life as it's happening right this moment. but I'd lie if I pretended it doesn't have anything to do with my life. it's a part of me, in a way. ;o)
posted by daria l'orange at 11:23 pm
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UNPRECEDENTED CASE OF CENSORSHIP IN GREECE
ATTN: INTERNATIONAL MEDIA
An unprecedented case of censorship against www.blogme.gr, a search engine for Greek blogs, has provoked hue and cry in Greek blogs. The case was made known by an e-mail sent by the search engine's administrator, Mr. Andonis Tsipropoulos, to all listed members yesterday evening. By this e-mail the administrator informed members that a Greek public figure -whose name has not been disclosed as yet by Blogme.Gr- prosecuted the search engine for what he/she regarded as slander in one of its listed blogs! The administrator was arrested without prior notice last night at his residence. He spent the night behind bars and was taken today to the Distric Attorney wearing handcuffs. His company - funded by an unemployment subsidies' program - has been forced to suspend its operation. Mr. Tsipropoulos has in overall sustained great damage on a professional and personal level alike.
In his e-mail, Mr. Tsipropoulos wrote: "This is the first time ever that a search engine - a site collecting information on the web - has been associated with the content of a web log and sued for it. Never before has an offended individual in a democratic country resorted to a lawsuit of this kind till this very day, with the exception of repressive regimes. Most recent examples are Singapore and China. However, even in these cases the lawsuits were against the blog administator, and not a blog directory that collects information such as Blogme. [...] As a result of this selective prosecution, Blogme has become the sole website collecting information that has sustained the implications of this action, among hundreds of similar search engines in the Greek and the World Wide Web, many of which display in different ways the contentious blog in their results." Mr. Tsipropoulos goes on saying that Blogme.Gr does not wish the prosecution of other search engines and that it does not pass an opinion on the blog in question or any other blog or web page content which it does not countersign. According to the Greek legislation, this case is directly associated with all that applies to the freedom of press and the information society in Greece.
DEAR WORLD PLEASE READ THIS
In Greece of 2006 we have the first sue against a site that (through rss) published some satirical posts (from a blog) about a famous person. You see, in my country WE ARE NOT FREE.
The owner of the site was handcuffed and driven to prison for one night and now he is free until the day he testifies in court. His computer with all his work was taken away from the police and now we are all waiting for the court to decide.The site I am referring to :
http://www.blogme.gr/blog/post/index/21/BLOGME
Excuse my bad English but this was the only way to inform all foreign bloggers that my country is not free anymore.
Please tell everyone you know.
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