-Caveat Lector- New to the group..yadda yadda...anyway, this is of interest the links they are referring to can be found at the online story site: http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=105001971
Note: Links were good at the time we posted this column, but they often go bad after a while. We make no guarantees. BY JAMES TARANTO Wednesday, April 24, 2002 1:11 p.m. EDT We Get Results--II All five of the Microsoft Network hate "communities" we noted yesterday are now gone. MSN dragged its feet on killing one of them, Dump Israel Now, which, a Microsoft representative wrote to an OpinionJournal reader, "does not encourage violence or racism [and] at this time it appears to be purely political debate about the US support of Israel, [so] we can not close it down at this time." We wrote the Microsoft rep and asked her if it really is the company's position that a reference to "the JEWnited States of America" is permissible under MSN's Terms of Service. Within three hours we had a response: "Per your questions . . ., this site has been disabled and is no longer accessible." Still accessible, though, are Aryan Skinheads United, Gathering place For white Nationalists and skins and at least five other white-supremacist "communities." We're tired of doing Microsoft's work for it, so we're not going to list the others just yet. We'll let you know in due course whether Microsoft seeks out and deletes the offending sites. Yahoo's Racist Yahoos Like MSN, Yahoo has terms of service that stipulate that users may not "upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that is . . . hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable." (See section 6a.) Also like MSN, Yahoo plays host to what appears to be a thriving white-supremacist subculture. Among the subcategories Yahoo lists under "Culture & Community Groups" in Yahoo's member directory are "Skinheads" and "White Pride and Racialism." There's also an "Anti-Zionism" subcategory, which is listed under "Judaism," even though most of its members, bearing screen names like "arabic_fighter" and "aryan_queen88," do not sound like anti-Zionist Jews. Under "Yahoo Groups"--which, like MSN's "communities," are user-created, we find such examples as these: WHITEISRIGHT, "a group for white people who want to promote the white race." It promises "METAL RACIAL MUSIC EMPOWERING THE ARYAN LEGIONS." NSM_Comrades, "a restricted list for members of the NSM and fellow NS Comrades," which "promotes Aryan Unity within the movement." The group's page links to nsm88.com, a swastika-laden site where we learn that NSM stands for National Socialist Movement. East Coast White Pride, a group "specifically for WP, NS, NA, WCOTC, KKK, skinheads and all other racialists and White nationalists in the eastern US and Canada," which stipulates that "no 'minorities', jews, homosexuals or SHARP/ARA/commie b.s. will be tolerated." A quick survey of Yahoo user profiles yields plenty of shockingly racist material. Here's a sample: The aforementioned aryan_queen88 lists "lynching" among her hobbies and declares (quoting verbatim): "All niggers,spics,jews,gooks and any other subhuman viewing this,,take the gun~ put under chin at 45 degree angle~ pull trigger~ ~ DIE!!~" Weissmacht_8814_skin lists his age as 88, his location as "timber nigger hell," his occupation as "nigger exterminator" and among his hobbies "smashing niggers." Whiteprideworldwide_14_88's profile brings us the "latest news" that "our government has been hi-jacked by Jews and Blacks." peaches17_88_4_u declares that "i am very racist and am looking for others who are the same." Her "favorite quote" is an obscenity-laden threat of violence against black people. Finding this stuff is absurdly easy; all you need to do is use the Google search engine to search Yahoo for keywords like white pride, Aryan and nigger. Not every page that contains these words is necessarily in violation of Yahoo's terms of service, but you'd think they'd serve as a red flag for administrators to have a look. What's the point of having antihate terms of service when Yahoo's efforts to enforce them are desultory at best? One other question: Does anyone know what it is that racist yahoos think is special about the number 88? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.yahoo.com/ <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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