It sounds like you're a victim of media propaganda. The article you
quoteed says that the U.S. government seized Indymedia servers so that
Indymedia wasn't able to update anything.

Yet the article you quote says that the article is from Indymedia.

which means that Indymedia was able to update their servers after this
so-called seizure of Indymedia's servers.


you fell for media propagada lies.

you wrote:

I have lost the original link, but here's one of the many sites that
mirror the following article, along with related links.

http://members5.boardhost.com/medialens/msg/190952.html

From the IndyMedia website:

Thursday morning, US authorities issued a federal order to Rackspace
ordering them to hand over Indymedia web servers to the requesting
agency. Rackspace, which provides hosting services for more that 20
Indymedia sites at its London facility, complied and turned over the
requested servers, effectively removing those sites from the internet.

Since the subpoena was issued to Rackspace and not to Indymedia, the
reasons for this action are still unknown to Indymedia. Talking to
Indymedia volunteers, Rackspace stated that "they cannot provide
Indymedia with any information regarding the order." ISPs have received
gag orders in similar situations which prevent them from updating the
concerned parties on what is happening.

It is unclear to Indymedia how and why a server that is outside the US
jurisdiction can be seized by US authorities.

At the same time an additional server was taken down at Rackspace which
provided streaming radio to several radio stations, BLAG (linux distro),
and a handful of miscellanous things.

The last few months have seen numerous
attacks on independent media by the US Federal Government. In August the
Secret Service used a subpoena in an attempt to disrupt the NYC IMC
before the RNC by trying to get IP logs from an ISP in the US and the
Netherlands. Last month the FCC shut down community radio stations
around the US. Two weeks ago the FBI requested that Indymedia takes down
a post on the Nantes IMC that had a photo of some undercover Swiss
police and IMC volunteers in Seattle were visited by the FBI on the same
issue. On the other hand, Indymedia and other independent media
organisations were successfull with their victories for example against
Diebold and the Patroit Act. Today however, the US authorities shut down
IMCs around the world.

The list of affected local media collectives includes Ambazonia,
Uruguay, Andorra, Poland, Western Massachusetts, Nice, Nantes, Lilles,
Marseille (all France), Euskal Herria (Basque Country), Liege, East and
West Vlaanderen, Antwerpen (all Belgium), Belgrade, Portugal, Prague,
Galiza, Italy, Brazil, UK, part of the Germany site, and the global
Indymedia Radio site.