Politician Forces German Wikipedia Off the Net
Found on Slashdot on Saturday, 15 November 2008
A German Member of parliament for a left-wing party, Lutz Heilmann, has obtained a preliminary injunction against the local chapter of the Wikimedia foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland e.V..
Apparently Heilmann is not happy with the fact that his Wikipedia article contains information on his work for the former GDR Stasi, the much-hated internal secret service.
Sweet, another try to force the truth off the Internet. And, as always, this heavily backfires. Now everybody who visits wikipedia.de will know about his past, making his reputation go down even more. All those with at least one working brain cell left will figure out that they can still read the german article in question, since de.wikipedia.org is hosting it; which is outside of german jurisdiction, making the decision totally pointless at best.