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Germany has banned a far-left internet portal accused of inciting violence and rallying activists who rioted during final month’s G20 summit in Hamburg.

it is now a crime to continue the use of the web site, linksunten.indymedia, interior Minister Thomas de Maizière talked about.

Police have seized computers and a few weapons in raids on addresses of activists within the south-western Baden-Wuerttemberg place.

Dozens of anti-capitalist protesters clashed with police all through the G20.

In a tweet, the German indoors ministry described the portal as “the critical communications platform amongst some distance-left extremists susceptible to violence”.

It talked about the website changed into used to change suggestions about violent protest strategies and to spread “anti-constitutional intense left-wing content”.

In Friday’s police raids, German broadcaster ARD stated, knives, batons, piping and slingshots had been seized.

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A banning guide forces web provider suppliers (ISPs) to dam a specific web site, such that clients attempting to entry it see an error message or an professional warning.

on occasion websites take evasive action by way of switching to a proxy server abroad or by using the information superhighway privateness tool Tor.

In Hamburg, essentially 200 law enforcement officials had been injured in clashes with masked protesters in early July.

under the slogan “Welcome to hell”, protesters looted stores, torched automobiles and threw stones and petrol bombs at police, who tried to disperse them with water cannon and baton expenses.