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Re:German Interior Ministry shuts down Linksunten.indymedia.org by DanielleMolloy on Friday August 25, 2017 @07:59AM (#15097769)
linksunten.indymedia is a widely known platform of the German Antifa. During the most recent weeks many texts glorifying or whitewashing the Hamburg G20 riots were published there. Texts can be submitted by any anonymous person, however the website owners decide whether they leave it online or not – so there is reason to see responsibility under law.

I wouldn't be surprised either if it becomes accessible again just after the German federal elections in 4 weeks.

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Re:German Interior Ministry shuts down Linksunten.indymedia.org by hedgedoops2 on Friday August 25, 2017 @07:32PM (#15103082)
I remember that during G20, some grandstanders set fire to some cables in the Berlin S-Bahn system, disrupting train service for a day. They then claimed responsibility with a letter on linksunten. [1]

Thing is, the comments on linksunten were uniformly condemning of the letter and the act. Yet still by sympathizers, not outsiders coming to the site. I'd link to the web archive version but the only thing the crawler was able to retrieve was a 'DDOS protection for civil society' banner [2].

"Antifa" is a bogeyman currently, imo.

[1] https://linksunten.indymedia.org/de/node/215853 (offline) [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20170620143720/https://linksunte...

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Re:German Interior Ministry shuts down Linksunten.indymedia.org by mschuster91 on Friday August 25, 2017 @08:51AM (#15098040)
Actually the operators themselves have shut it down - press reports have surfaced that the servers are located in France, and I guess that the ops team which did not get their apartments fleeced is busy moving the servers to somewhere well out of the reach of de Maiziere.
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Re:German Interior Ministry shuts down Linksunten.indymedia.org by dtornabene on Friday August 25, 2017 @04:34PM (#15101973)
Yes, what could possibly motivate individuals to join ..... a german antifascist movement. Totally bizarre. So strange. Almost as if there was some kind of historical precedent....
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