Germany Shuts Down Major Alt-Left Extremist Website

One of Germany’s largest platforms for far-left extremists, a website suspected of planning the G20 violence at Hamburg this year and that has published contact information of populist politicians, has been taken down. The extremist site “linksunten.indymedia.org” was shut down by the interior ministry Friday. The website, which started in 2009, has been the largest platform for extremist groups like Antifa and sources claim that the government shut the site down in response to the violence at the Hamburg G20 conference, Der Spiegel reports. -- More...