NP Neo-Nazis on the Net

[Alan Westrope]

On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, "davemarc" <davemarc at panix.com> wrote:

>An interesting "response" to the Netzis can be found on the Web-based
>Nizkor Project.  Don't have the URL handy, but a search for "Nizkor" should
>do the trick.  

Yes, a very good site -- I don't have a URL either, but links to Nizkor
and the Simon Wiesenthal Center have thoughtfully been provided by the
foax who maintain the Zundel site at www.webcom.com/ezundel/ :-)

There was a controversy a few years ago when the German government
wanted ISPs like AOL to block access to this site for users in Germany.
Turns out there was no technical way to accomplish this, webcom is
in Southern California where German and Canadian laws don't apply,
the German position prompted lots of U.S. folks to put up mirrors of
the Zundel site to protest censorship, the whole thing generated
lots of free publicity for Zundel, and the site is alive and well.
Internet 1, Statists 0.

An impartial history of the controversy is available via links at
http://insight.mcmaster.ca/org/efc/pages/chrc-zundel.html

(More recently, Serbian thugs shut down Radio B29, and they simply
switched to broadcasting with RealAudio over the Internet, likewise
generating additional publicity, as I'm sure some <ahem...> here
remember quite well.  Internet 2, Statists 0.)

Anyway, this is my final post on this topic.  The only relevance I see
to the p-list is that a link to the Zundel site will now be embedded
in the list archives, sorta like Neil Armstrong's footprints on the moon.
(A-and, I'm like, rilly, totally, looking forward to chatting with Murthy
and Andrew in a jail cell in Canada, where we will no doubt be extradited
to face charges of Conspiracy to Encourage the Transport of Electrons Which
May Incite Behaviour Which May Lead To Actions Which May Be Unlawful In
Some Jurisdictions, popularly known as the "1997 Poisoning of Minds Act.")

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