Re:French homeland intelligence threatens a sysop into delet...
by PeterisP on Saturday April 06, 2013 @05:05PM
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If a crime was involved, it could be understandable - but what crime is there?
This is public, non-secret information hosted outside of France by a non-French organization.
If a Boeing sysadming goes to France on vacation, can they ask him to delete stuff out of Boeing servers?
Once the authorities concluded a crime was being committed by organisation X, they found someone involved with that organisation and forced them to stop.
They clearly correctly identified that person as a) being a member, and b) having the means to delete the article.
That's not a new precedent, that's perfectly normal. The only real issue is the ridiculous attempt to make the information "disappear" in the first place.