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Police Fitwatch Blog Censorship Attempt Laughed Off By Internet

riotact | 16.11.2010 00:59 | Culture | Policing | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Within just a couple of hours of the news that the police had closed down the fitwatch website (1) the piece which so offended the sensitive flowers has been blooming across the internet.

Fitwatch are a loose organisation who for several years have narked off the filth by exposing, blocking and challenging the Forward Intelligence Teams (FIT), the branch of the police used to spy on and harass protesters. If you’ve ever been on a demo or even at a community festival or football match then you may have noticed them pointing a camera at you because they’re too scared and lazy to be proper coppers.

After last weeks events at Millbank during the student demonstrations fitwatch.org.uk published some advice for those worried they had appeared in the press and may face arrest. The piece called Beating police repression after the student occupation can now be read, thanks to the bungling Met on a growing number of sites across the internet.

The fitwatch site was shut down apparabtly on request of Acting Detective Inspector Will Hodgeson from CO11. Early reports suggest that this happened due to a request from the police to the site’s host complaining the site may be involved in perverting the cause of justice. This is a worrying development. Whilst we will doubtless know more tomorrow, as yet it does not seem a Court Order had been issued which, means the filth are now bullying internet hosting companies into removing material which upsets them.

The good news is that the offending piece, now being much discussed on twitter (2) can be found at:

 http://johnnyvoid.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/beating-police-repression-after-the-student-occupation/

 http://dirt.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/2010/11/beating-police-repression-after-student.html

and here:  http://norfolknonaligned.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/beating-police-repression-after-the-student-occupation/

and also at

 http://bryanspygar.blogspot.com/2010/11/beating-police-repression-after-student.html

 http://projectsheffield.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/httpfitwatch-org-uk-has-been-suspended/

as well as UK indymedia, Bristol indymedia and Scotland indymedia as well as being linked to on facebook pages, republished in forums etc.

And of course google (3).

All in just two hours, please join in, republish and show the Met the internet will not be censored. Add links to anywhere else you’ve spotted it in the comments below.

Fitwatch have said they ain’t going fucking anywhere and will be back online soon, in the meantime you can catch them on facebook at:  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fitwatch/103821345868

(1)  http://www.fitwatch.org.uk/
(2)  http://twitter.com/search?q=%23fitwatch
(3)  http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qv4goBQOpDYJ:www.fitwatch.org.uk/+fitwatch&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a

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- Homepage: http://johnnyvoid.wordpress.com/

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Latest List of Sites Republishing fitwatch blog

16.11.2010 14:20

 http://johnnyvoid.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/police-fitwatch-blog-censorship-attempt-laughed-off-by-internet/

 http://dirt.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk/2010/11/beating-police-repression-after-student.html

and here:  http://norfolknonaligned.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/beating-police-repression-after-the-student-occupation/

 http://bryanspygar.blogspot.com/2010/11/beating-police-repression-after-student.html

 http://projectsheffield.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/httpfitwatch-org-uk-has-been-suspended/

 http://truth-reason-liberty.blogspot.com/2010/11/police-take-fitwatch-down-as-they-go-on.html

 http://bristle.wordpress.com/2010/11/16/we-are-all-fitwatch-cops-take-down-police-watchdog-website-with-wild-claims-no-evidence-spurious-legality/

 http://cambridgeanarchists.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/fitwatch-org-taken-down-by-the-filth/

 http://edinburghanarchists.noflag.org.uk/2010/11/fitwatch-org-uk-taken-offline-by-police/

 http://www.isle-of-avalon.co.uk/fitwatch.html

 http://blog.voyou.org/fitwatch-post.html

 http://libcom.org/library/beating-police-repression-after-student-occupation

 http://nothingiseverlost.wordpress.com/2010/11/16/beating-police-repression-after-the-student-occupationbeating-police-censorship-of-the-internet/

 http://barnsdale.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/fitwatch-suspended-time-for-solidarity-make-sure-the-students-are-well-advised/

 http://policestate.co.uk/articles/94

Nothern indymedia

UK indymedia

Bristol indymedia

London indymedia

Scotland indymedia

 http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/forums/28-Politics-protest-and-current-affairs

 http://mostlywater.org/beating_police_repression_after_student_occupation

 http://identi.ca/notice/58702225

 http://liverpoolsolfed.wordpress.com/2010/11/16/beating-police-repression-after-the-student-occupation/

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/16/student-anti-police-website-closed?showallcomments=true#end-of-comments

 http://talkingliberties.wordpress.com/2010/11/16/solidarity-with-fitwatch/

 http://www.permanentrevolution.net/entry/3192

 http://headstrong.me.uk/?p=126

 http://auntiefarr.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/advice-for-students-at-millbank/

 http://fitwatch.tiltingatwindmills.org.uk/

riotact


use radical providers

17.11.2010 03:11

At the risk of repeating myself... use radical techie collectives; they won't roll over when the police make threats like mainstream ones will.

Here's a list of alternatives:
 https://we.riseup.net/riseuphelp/radical-servers

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