2004-05-03
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racist censors strike | It is troubling to know that a single white supremacist group will work so aggressively to censor they disagree with | Even to try shutting down another person's site that had on it a lone inactive link to a webpage that may have been critical of the bigot group |
That they'd lie about the whole process in order to self-aggrandize themselves to their flock is troubling as well, but would typically be none of my affair | Until the site they tried to censor is none other than my own, a relatively obscure site with a handful of readers, but it gets a lot of visits (almost 250,000 since 1999) mostly from people I don't know |
What, supposedly, did I do? They claimed ~without even a slip of evidence~ that my site displayed logos and other identifying information in such a way as make people think my site was their | That's the claim | Then they brag on another page that they got me censored [uh, sorry, shut down] and further claim that my site was set up to deceive and lure unsuspecting racists to become homosexuals | There may be sites that do such a thing, mine isn't ~and never has been~ one of them |
Not taking this sitting down, I contacted the ACLU, who finds the sitution of interest | They said it was disturbing but no surprise |
Just as disappointing is the lawyer in Chicago who -without so much as a hint of investigating a complaint, took these liars at their allegation and apparently demanded to shut down my website | So much for an attorney's understanding of procedural due process, eh?
Since I find the site this racist group runs personally reprehensible because of its blatent bigotry I've never even written about them much less publicized their cause |
Incidentally, what they found offensive enough to demand a total shut down of my website was a single link that you could not get to from any of the rest of my pages | It was on a list of bookmarks I had put on my server so I could acess all sorts of stuff while traveling | I could only do this by hand typing in the page name |
That this group of cowardly scoundrels hide behind the relative anonymity of censorship of sites that take then to task for their own disgusting actions is also not surprising | If this is what they consider bravery, all the more troubling that they want to govern the country |
No, I won't identify them | Think they'll now complain I am censoring their point of view? ¶ 09:34
