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Satire is now officially illegal in the fountainhead of democracy.

As Internet luminaries converge on Athens to discuss 'freedom of speech theory' Greek authorities shut down a local blog aggregator for publishing a link to a satirical article.

Greek authorities have raided the home of Antonis Tsipropoulos, administrator of BLOGME.GR, a blog aggregation site. His hard drive was seized and he was arrested. The impetus was BLOGME.GR had a link to a satiric blog that apparently offended a known crackpot demagogue.

This coincides nicely - for the Internet Governance Forum is being hosted in the Greek capital this week with luminaries such as Vint Cerf, Bob Kahn, and Joi Ito expected to attend.

Although the forum features panels on 'openness' and 'freedom of expression' it's clear now for the hosting nation these discussions are to be in theory only.

See Also
BLOGME.GR
Internet Governance Project
CNET: Unprecedented Case of Censorship
Slashdot: Greek Blog Aggregator Arrested
Internet Governance Forum: Openness Panel
Aggregating blogs in Greece could get you sued
Internet Governance Forum: Freedom of Expression Panel
Porcupine: Greek webmaster gets arrested for aggregating content!
Don't Kiss the Frog: Aggregation service administrator gets jailed for... linking
Wikinews: Greek blog aggregation service administrator jailed, service censored
Martin Belam's Currybet: Blog censorship in Greece ahead of the IGF forum in Athens

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