This all reminds me of SCO's dastardly plot to kill Linux, hatched by then new CEO Darl McBride...this will run and run until Yahoo! is all out of money. Then it will continue through bankruptcy.
The Metropolitan Police don't have the authority to demand a website to be taken down, this requires a court order of some kind. The hosting company ought to have stood their ground.
The website campaign against the Metropolitan police (or at least some of their infiltration activities), so it may be there were other reasons that the Met wanted the site gone.
Didn't work.
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This is all very reminiscent of the SCO versus Linux debacle, with all the shrinking claims and assertions.
This all reminds me of SCO's dastardly plot to kill Linux, hatched by then new CEO Darl McBride...this will run and run until Yahoo! is all out of money. Then it will continue through bankruptcy.
Police acted without authority
The Metropolitan Police don't have the authority to demand a website to be taken down, this requires a court order of some kind. The hosting company ought to have stood their ground.
The website campaign against the Metropolitan police (or at least some of their infiltration activities), so it may be there were other reasons that the Met wanted the site gone.
Didn't work.