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FBI demands that Wikipedia remove it’s shield

August 6th, 2010 · 5:42 am

The Federal Bureau of Investigation Office of General Counsel (GLU) sent a letter to Wikimedia Foundation (the parent company of Wikipedia) ordering them to remove the FBI shield from it’s pages (“Unathorized posting of the FBI Seal”) and threatening litigation. The image in question is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US-FBI- ShadedSeal.svg. The letter states that “the site itself notes, [...]

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