Some local court in a preliminary measure ordered the redirection wikipedia.de to de.wikipedia.org to be switched off, resulting in the entire German press ridiculing that guy and his east German (ex?)communist party for days.

So the German language Wikipedia was never offline, it's not like there is any infrastructure to bring down an American website merely because some computer illiterate judge wants this to happen, this is not yet China (or Britain for that matter ;-)

I understand that the guy in question used to be a stasi (former east german state security police), and he didn't mind that that was pointed out and it's still mentioned in the article.
So before defending him because you like lefties.. stasi is the wrong kind of left, known as far right to common people..

lolz definately not

the left party is filled up with ex- german democratic republic guys, they always go berserk when somebody criticizes them, and wiki didnt want to play the poker

in the US or Australia people would never get to realize politicians deleting their entries, they just do it secretly

That might just be the dumbest thing ever said on the Inq. Congrats, that's a pretty low bar to get under, jackass.

To Rich Vargo:

You do realize that it is a left-winger (=strictly opposed to Nazis) who tried this ? Besides, if wanted to start generalize we could of course also talk about the highly humane and altruistic rule of the British Empire throughout the world. Any large-scale killings of indigenous people in British Colonies must have happened purely accidental (slipped or something) and all allegations of oppression and cultural eradications are certainly just smear campaigns by those who cant appreciate the blessings of being governed by the highly civilized British.

Well, it IS the german wackypaedia. Like all good little ex-nazis, somebody else must approve any action. Germans are not known for their initiative. Only their single-mindedness, like getting rid of a few million Jews, homosexuals, Slavs, and other "genetically defective subhumans" cluttering up the landscape. Didn't Lenin and Stalin do that also? Except in their case, it was anyone with more than half a brain cell, who might figure out what a colossal scam they were pulling.