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Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Croatian minister: I will find the identity of my YouTube heckler

20 days ago you had an article about Croatian opposition party which walked out of Croatian Parliament because of YouTube videos which mock interior minister Ivica Kirin.
Today, new session of Parliament meeting started and opposition party members walked in wearing t-shirts with stylized YouTube logo in crosshairs. They are demanding resignation of our interior minister as well as formation of investigating committee which is supposed to find out if Mr. Kirin abused his power and ordered tracking of internet servers as he claimed.
This is quote important since we really do not know if he (minister) ordered investigation on who uploaded funny clips about him on Internet (he is also coordinator of secret services in Croatia). This is a serious precedent and possible (while still unlikely) invasion of our rights as well as stomping on freedom of speech on the Internet.

Link (Thanks, Mrak!)

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