Although some people may see Google as the "bad guy" here, but they are just following suit. Any servers that host stuff like this have an obligation to provide their customers with a medium for free speech of any sort. It starts to get blurry around things like this, but this is really tame compared to other things I have seen. Many people may not have read about this, but there was an article on indymedia about a socialist in Warsaw who was targetted by neo-nazis who found him from a website called redwatch.info that actually lists personal information about people who are known socialists, like their addresses, phone numbers, pictures, etc. As many complaints as their host has received, they still refuse to do anything about it.Here's that story:
I blogged about this and let me share a comment left on my blog from Cam from FightDemBack (the anti-Nazi org mentioned in the article)."G’day, I’m Cam from FightDemBack (the anti-Nazi org mentioned in the article).Although I agree with Erin M to the extent that people shouldn’t be prosecuted for their beliefs, the websites cited in that article go beyond that. As Rose has noted, they publish names, home addresses and photographs - but they also go a step further. Although most have been removed now due to increased police attention, one of the websites in question also included incitements to violence in the (moderated) comments section. Readers were told that the people featured on the site should be strung up, shot, or have their throats cut."Having been to both blogs, all I can say is that these are hateful blogs owned by neo-Nazis that should be removed from Blogger.
a10webbOct 26, 2006
Although some people may see Google as the "bad guy" here, but they are just following suit. Any servers that host stuff like this have an obligation to provide their customers with a medium for free speech of any sort. It starts to get blurry around things like this, but this is really tame compared to other things I have seen. Many people may not have read about this, but there was an article on indymedia about a socialist in Warsaw who was targetted by neo-nazis who found him from a website called redwatch.info that actually lists personal information about people who are known socialists, like their addresses, phone numbers, pictures, etc. As many complaints as their host has received, they still refuse to do anything about it.Here's that story:
a10webbOct 26, 2006
<a class="user" href="http://publish.indymedia.org/en/2006/05/839847.shtml">http://publish.indymedia.org/en/2006/05/839847.shtml</a>for some reason digg didn't add that
swtroseNov 14, 2006
I blogged about this and let me share a comment left on my blog from Cam from FightDemBack (the anti-Nazi org mentioned in the article)."G’day, I’m Cam from FightDemBack (the anti-Nazi org mentioned in the article).Although I agree with Erin M to the extent that people shouldn’t be prosecuted for their beliefs, the websites cited in that article go beyond that. As Rose has noted, they publish names, home addresses and photographs - but they also go a step further. Although most have been removed now due to increased police attention, one of the websites in question also included incitements to violence in the (moderated) comments section. Readers were told that the people featured on the site should be strung up, shot, or have their throats cut."Having been to both blogs, all I can say is that these are hateful blogs owned by neo-Nazis that should be removed from Blogger.