Success (In eigener Sache)

A while ago I wrote a review of Giles MacDonogh's book After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation. Unfortunately, two Holocaust Denial sites linked to the post as they twisted the words to support their hateful ideology.  I was forced to add the following sentences to my post:

Always report hate sites to the SImon Wiesenthal Center, which keeps an extensive data base of Holocaust Deniers and other deranged lunatics from around the world.  Send the link to iReport@wiesenthal.com.

Well, I followed my own advice and got into a good correspondence with the Simon Wiesenthal Center.  I also contacted the Canadian ISP for one of the hate sites, but clearly the intervention by the Wiesenthal Center was more persuasive:

            A quick responding Canadian Internet Service Provider (ISP) has closed down an Internet site promoting anti-Semitic hate after being alerted by Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies (FSWC).        

                   

            When FSWC reported "realjewnews.com" to its Canadian ISP, its content was reviewed and determined to violate the master service agreement as well as Canadian values. Although the Canadian ISP swiftly and decisively removed the offending site, within days, it reappeared on another server, this time in another country.        

           

            The Internet has become a prime tool for extremist and terrorist activity worldwide. Nevertheless, Canadian legislation and its provision for dealing with Internet offenders is a model for international governance.        

           

            Comments Leo Adler, director of National Affairs, FSWC, "Our Canadian system strikes the perfect balance between two intrinsically Canadian ideals, namely, freedom of speech and abhorrence for hate and intolerance."

While I support free speech - even hate speech - unconditionally, I see no reason why service providers need to profit from the distribution of hateful content.  I salute the Canadian ISP and the good work of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in exposing hate on the Internet.

Comments

[antonymous]

It's a bad joke that the Wiesenthal center would endorse a book that is essentially a best-of-collection taken from German Neo-Nazi literature. This stuff has been around for ages and your book is in no way original research, it rather seems to be another cheap try at Nazification for common Americans.

It seems the desperate extreme right wingers really seem to cling together. Here we have American Zionists making up with Nazis, and even the British BNP is now trying to switch over to Zionism as an official line.