geert lovink on 15 Jul 2000 16:09:31 -0000 |
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<nettime> Altern.org shut down |
from thestandard.com's intelligencer europe: LE MORT D'ALTERN: Altern.org, a French Web hosting service that's been in operation since 1992, shut down in late June, leaving its 40,000 personal sites out on the rue. The crushing blow, says Altern founder Valentin Lacambre in a Liberation interview, came when the French government passed a law holding Web hosting services legally liable for the content of their users. The law, which took effect June 28, still has to pass the constitutional tests of the French courts. But for the moment, Altern - a favorite of activists across the globe - is calling itself the law's first victim. http://www.liberation.fr/quotidien/semaine/20000713jeuzf.html (in French) Perhaps could someone in France (Christine?) explain what the motives of Valentin and others have been to shut down altern.org. Is a strong statement to close an alternative network in France? Did the police and justice force altern.org or was it a thread which could be done at any time? Where there also financial reasons to close the server? Can't altern.org be hosted in another country, for example in Holland, Belgium, Germany? Just some questions. Why play with the victim card? I wonder. Too bad! ciao, geert # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net