http://www.metafilter.com/tags/supranational/rss tag posts with supranational Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:35:06 -0800 Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:35:06 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/48430/Information-wants-to-be-free <a href="http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/68603">Wikipedia wrangling</a> once more: the entire German edition <a href="http://eurotelcoblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/wikipedia.html">was</a> <a href="http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7660">shut</a> <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/19/2056252">down</a> this week over the contents of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_%28hacker%29">single</a> <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_%28Hacker%29">entry</a>. The parents of the article's subject, a German hacker who died in 1998 under <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,2082173,00.htm">mysterious</a> <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,17050,00.html">circumstances</a>, are displeased with his real name being disclosed in the encyclopedia. It is now back online; however, the future of the family's efforts is currently unclear, not only due to the German order's debatable validity in the US - but also because the order was, initially at least,<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/20/wikipedia_shutdown/"> mistakenly addressed</a> to St. Petersburg, Russia, instead of St. Petersburg, Florida. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.48430 Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:35:06 -0800 tron hacker wikipedia germany law legislation jurisdiction privacy lawsuit lawsuits internet supranational internationallaw german suicide controversy goodnewsfortheinsane