International Herald Tribune - Bloggers beware when you criticize the rich and powerful: The daily Web log, or blog, of the former U.K. ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, vanished after Murray's British Internet provider received a flurry of ominous legal letters demanding the removal of "potentially defamatory" information about Alisher Usmanov, a mining mogul with a rising stake in the English soccer club Arsenal. Two weeks later, Murray is not blogging, but his blistering opinions are about to surface again through a Dutch Internet provider that offers refuge to controversial bloggers in the United States and in England, where libel laws are more lax. And with that journey, Murray has stirred support and a common outrage among bloggers and Internet service providers who complain that chilling demands from companies are becoming more frequent in a number of countries.
In other news, Craig Murray's site is now back online, and we can probably expect to hear something from him later today.
It looks like this is going to be an unhappy week for Mr Usmanov.
Monday, October 8, 2007
Next cab off the rank: Usmanov
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Don't forget that Usmanov has also been named in a forthcoming diamond fraud case
Check the last link in the post.
:o)
I think my eyes are goimg :)
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