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Jewish Internet Agency Founded To Censor US Internet Providers
Netscape First To Yield To New Jewish Censorship Pressure
11/23/02 12:15:49 PM
The Forward
Los Angeles, California -- [LSN: The Jewish idea of "balanced" coverage
is four TV networks, two owned
by Jews and two managed by them. When white people get to run a TV
network of
their own, then the Jews can complain about internet "bias."]
http://www.forward.com/issues/2002/02.11.22/news9.html
<p>Netscape Heeds Jews' Gripes Over Web Directory
<p>By LARRY RAMER
<p>FORWARD CORRESPONDENT
<p>Internet giant Netscape has acknowledged anti-Israel bias in its
massive
Web cataloguing service and has taken several steps to correct the
situation,
including dismissing the volunteer editor Netscape says was responsible.
<p>Responding to a complaint by the Jewish Internet Association, an
Internet
watchdog group, Netscape's Robert Keating said the company would also
eliminate a category that linked users to Jewish extremist groups such as
Kahane Chai and would add a separate list of pro-Israel organizations
under
their own category.
<p>Chuck Chriss, president of the California-based Jewish Internet Agency,
wrote in a November 3 letter to the members of his mailing list that he
was "satisfied" with the changes, but noted that "further changes are
promised
in an ongoing effort to improve" Netscape's service.
<p>The service, known as the Open Directory Project, is an effort to
create a
comprehensive catalog of the Internet, with millions of Web sites placed
into
categories and subcategories. Hosted and administered by Netscape, the
directory is now featured by various search engines, including the popular
Google.
<p>Tens of thousands of volunteer editors choose the Web sites, Web site
descriptions and categories that will be placed in the directory, but
Netscape "sets the editorial policies and direction" of the project,
according
to the directory's own Web site. Netscape has said that the volunteers are
chosen by unpaid senior editors, who are approved by Keating, the editor
in
chief of the project.
<p>Chriss said his organization discovered problems in the directory last
month, and sent a letter with specific allegations of bias and distortions
to
Steve Case, chairman of Netscape's parent company, AOL Time Warner.
<p>Chriss complained that the directory contained a link to "Jewish Hate
Groups," including Kach and Kahane Chai, but did not contain a
corresponding
category for Islamic extremists, nor any sites describing antisemitism
among
Muslims. He said a search of the term "Palestinian extremist" produced a
list
dominated by Jewish extremist organizations.
<p>Chriss also complained to Case that other searches of the directory
resulted in lists of Web sites that were similarly skewed toward the
Palestinian viewpoint, and that there was a shortage of positive,
substantive
information about Judaism on the directory.
<p>Shortly afterwards, Chriss received a letter from Keating saying
Netscape
agreed that there was bias in the directory and that it had decided to
dismiss
the volunteer editor who they said was responsible.
<p>In addition, the company eliminated the "Jewish Hate Group" section,
added
a separate list of pro-Israel organizations under their own category and
included the Jewish Internet Association's own pro-Israel "Palestine
Facts"
Web site.
<p>Chriss told the Forward last week that he did not blame Netscape for
the
initial bias, saying they had a small staff supervising tens of thousands
of
volunteer editors.
<p>Meanwhile, some of the complaints Chriss made about the directory seem
not
to have been corrected, the Forward found. These include a Web site,
listed
fourth under a sub-category for "Suicide Bombing," written by a Muslim
organization justifying the use of suicide bombers.
<p>The Forward also found that, under a heading for "Background and
History"
of the "Israel-Palestine" conflict, 52 sites are listed; 27 are from a
Palestinian perspective, 19 are from United Nations or newspaper sources,
and
only five from pro-Israel or Jewish sources. Of these five, four represent
Israel's peace camp. Similarly, of the 32 sites listed under
"Organizations"
pertaining to the conflict, only nine are under Jewish or pro-Israel
auspices.
<p>Keating declined to answer questions for this article, referring all
inquiries to Derick Mains, a Netscape spokesman.
<p>Mains said Keating is the only Netscape employee who works on the
project
and "could not be expected to go in and police millions of Web sites."
<p>Added Mains, "I believe the complaint [by Chriss] was about bias within
one
category, and that the problem was solved."
<p>Mains also suggested that pro-Israel activists volunteer to be editors
on
the directory and correct some of the perceived bias.
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