Greek blog aggregation service administrator jailed, service censored
{{date|October 27, 2006}}

Antonis Tsipropoulos (Αντώνης Τσιπρόπουλος), the administrator of the [[Greece|Greek]] blog aggregating service blogme.gr, has been sued, arrested and jailed, because one of the linked [[w:RSS (file format)|RSS]] feeds on his site had satirical content. Although the service was unrelated in any way other than linking to the allegedly offending blog, the blogme.gr server was shut down and its hard drives were confiscated.

Mr Tsipropoulos posted an explanation for the service's downtime, describing his arrest but naming neither the satirical blog nor the plaintiff. Tsipropoulos later removed the explanation at his lawyers' advice because it might appear to be contemptive to the authorities, because it stated that an aggregating service has nothing to do with the various feeds' content. Although Tsipropoulos gave no clues to the identity of the plaintiff, the only satirical blog known to appear in blogme.gr lampooned televangelist and national mysticist [[w:Dimosthenis Liakopoulos|Dimosthenis Liakopoulos]]. It is suspected that Liakopoulos is the plaintiff. More will be known in the upcoming trial.

== Sources ==

*{{source|url=http://news.com.com/5208-12-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=22355&start=0
|title=Unprecedented Case Of Censorship In Greece
|author=Serenity_78
|pub=CNET
|date=October 27, 2006}}
*{{source|url=http://www.currybet.net/cbet_blog/2006/10/blog_censorship_in_greece_ahea.php
|title=Blog censorship in Greece ahead of the IGF forum in Athens
|author=Martin Belam
|pub=currybetdotnet
|date=October 27, 2006}}
*{{source|url=http://www.technorati.com/search/blogme.gr
|title=blogme.gr blog discussions
|author=
|pub=technorati.com
|date=October 27, 2006}}
*{{source|url=http://blog.dontkissthefrog.net/2006/10/26/greek-aggregation-service-administrator-gets-jailed-for-linking/
|title=Greek aggregation service administrator gets jailed for... linking
|author=J95
|pub=dontkissthefrog.net
|date=October 26, 2006}}
*{{source|url=http://www.blogme.gr/keim.htm
|title=blogme.gr
|author=
|pub=blogme.gr
|date=October 26th, 2006}}

==External links==

*[http://www.blogme.gr/ blogme.gr]
*[http://anikolaou.blogspot.com/2006/10/blogmegr.html Explanation by Mr Tsipropoulos]{{languageicon|gr|Greek}}
*[http://www.blogme.gr/keim.htm Lawyer's warning]{{languageicon|gr|Greek}}
*[http://www.porcupine.gr/2006/10/27/greek-webmaster-gets-arrested-for-aggregating-content/en/ English article]
*[http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EC5BV5VG mr Tsipropoulos 01 interview on Skai Athens Radio at 30/10/2006]
*[http://www.megaupload.com/?d=USEISGN7 mr Tsipropoulos 02 interview on Skai Athens Radio at 30/10/2006]
*[http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ANH1Y2W1 mr Tsipropoulos 03 interview on Skai Athens Radio at 31/10/2006]
*[http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RNUNG6O5 mr Rousopoulos representative of gov at 31/10/2006]
*[http://www.freestuff.gr/forums/viewtopic.php support forum on this case no 1]
*[http://www.phorum.gr/viewtopic.php?t=17343 support forum on this case no 2]

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Antonis Tsipropoulos (Αντώνης Τσιπρόπουλος), the administrator of the Greek blog aggregating service blogme.gr, has been sued, arrested and jailed, because one of the linked RSS feeds on his site had satirical content. Although the service was unrelated in any way other than linking to the allegedly offending blog, the blogme.gr server was shut down and its hard drives were confiscated.

Mr Tsipropoulos posted an explanation for the service's downtime, describing his arrest but naming neither the satirical blog nor the plaintiff. Tsipropoulos later removed the explanation at his lawyers' advice because it might appear to be contemptive to the authorities, because it stated that an aggregating service has nothing to do with the various feeds' content. Although Tsipropoulos gave no clues to the identity of the plaintiff, the only satirical blog known to appear in blogme.gr lampooned televangelist and national mysticist Dimosthenis Liakopoulos. It is suspected that Liakopoulos is the plaintiff. More will be known in the upcoming trial.
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