A rather big story seems to be breaking: A brand new Internet censorship drive-and guess who is behind it?
It started with Canadian Marc Lemire who ran the Freedom-Site and who had the plug pulled on him by his server a few days ago without prior notice or even the courtesy of being permitted to put up a link to another site. Marc was simply thrown off the air willy-nilly-and with him, four or five other "politically incorrect" accounts.
Last night it was CODOH International, based in the USA, one of our finest Revisionist sites specializing in publicizing Thought Crimes. It looked like this:
"At midnight on July 3/4 Bradley Smith's server pulled the plug on the CODOH site with no notice whatsoever. Will keep you informed of where and when we'll be back on the air.
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C E N S O R E D ! ! !
Richard Widmann
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When I asked Richard what happened, he told me:
". . . Valleynet was purchased by an eastern company. All accounts were to change to psnw - protosource network. The division manager is one - admin@psnw.com (Rick Horowitz). Mr. Horowitz apparently runs his own holocaust website. I have not visited it. Whether he has acted alone or by the prodding of the SWC is open to question. I personally lean toward the SWC being behind this although there is no concrete evidence of this. Dr. Töben (of the Revisionist Adelaide Institute in Australia) has written to me that SWC is complaining about the Adelaide Institute site causing an investigation in Australia . . . This appears to be a coordinated effort. We were shut down at 1 second past midnight on July 4th. I will let you know more as the facts develop . . . "
Just minutes ago, I received the following from Dr. Töben directly:
Adelaide, 5 July 1996
Please be advised that the Brisbane-based daily newspaper, The Courier Mail, has this day informed its readers that the Federal Attorney-General's Department is following up a complaint - lodged via the Australian Embassy in the U.S. by Rabbi Cooper of the U.S.-based Simon Wiesenthal Centre - that material on Adelaide Institute's website may be contravening Australian laws.
The Attorney-General's office has confirmed that it is investigating Adelaide Institute. Needless to state that we have as yet not been formally or even informally informed of any such investigations.
Various state-based newspapers also carried the story. Our Adelaide Advertiser rang us this afternoon and asked a few 'confirming questions'. The story may appear in Saturday's edition of the paper.
Adelaide Institute has likewise filed a complaint against the Simon Wiesenthal Centre and also against the publication and distribution of the Babylonian Talmud.
As Adelaide Institute expected such a move from overseas - interestingly we have not had any complaint filed from any local organisation - we are seeking legal advice as to what the next step will be once the formal papers arrive from the Attorney-General's Department.
We expect to be hit with the power of the newly proclaimed federal Racial Hatred Bill of 1995 which inserts new sections into the Racial Discrimination Act 1975. Section 18D may protect our work. It states that nothing which is said or done reasonably and in good faith in the course of any statement, publication, discussion or debate made or held for an academic, artistic, or scientific purpose, or any other purpose in the public interest will be prohibited.
It is obvious to us that we shall be testing the strength of this new section. . . "
Friends, it is starting all over again. This time, no unctuous monkey business about ". . . protecting minors from smut."
Fasten your seat belts. Brace yourselves for a very rough ride.
Ingrid Thought for the Day:
Thought for the Day:
Definition of a court room, as per H. L. Mencken:
"A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds in favor of Judas."