Still a Vicious Thug
25th September 2007
Political Sites Yanked in Tycoon Row
Several high-profile political Web sites, including that of a leading contender for London mayor, have been pulled from the Internet after Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov threatened legal action.
Web hosting firm Fasthosts Internet Ltd last week took down the Web site of Craig Murray, Britain's former ambassador to the Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan, because of allegations made about Usmanov's past.
The company said unrelated sites, including one of Boris Johnson, a Conservative lawmaker and leading contender in next year's London mayoral race, faced "possible downtime" for technical reasons because they were hosted on the same server.
Fasthosts confirmed it had shut down Murray's site over "potentially defamatory material" after Usmanov's London-based law firm, Schillings, demanded content be removed.
Associated Press | 25th September 2007
Chicken Yoghurt has the story (Russian gazillionaire tries to buy London football club, gets called on teh webs, goes sobbing to lawyers (diddumski!), they threaten hosting company which takes down offending blogger and causes a shitload of collateral.) Said oligarch should bugger off to a damp cave and grow a thicker skin, his lawyers should be ashamed of themselves and I hope their riches turn to dung and is forever stuck beneath their fingernails making their canapes smell strange.
Lunartalks | 20th September 2007
