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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Bobbie Johnson, technology correspondent

Indymedia gets its servers back

Anyone who has been following the Indymedia saga which I wrote about in yesterday's Online - and from the email I've been getting, there are a lot of you - will have been wondering what happened to the UK servers seized by the FBI last week.

Unfortunately I was away yesterday, so I couldn't blog it - but the FBI returned the seized servers:

"In a huge initial victory for Indymedia, the two servers recently seized by the FBI were returned this morning to Rackspace (the hosting service where the servers were first taken from). Indymedia is now weighing additional legal options after this illegal seizure of its servers."

Like or loathe Indymedia (and there are plenty of both), this is about freedom of expression. And the questions still remain about how, or why, the servers were confiscated in the first place.

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