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CMU Professor David Touretzky - No Expert on the 1st Amendment



faxhor@hotmail.com (Faxhor)
10/16/2004 6:21:48 PM


================================================================
CMU PROFESSOR DAVID TOURETZKY - NO EXPERT ON THE 1ST AMENDMENT
================================================================
Carnegie Mellon University Professor David Tourtetzky's
radically twisted interpretation of 'Freedom of Speech'
encourages hatred, crime and terrorism. On the internet,
David Touretzky has reproached minority ethic and religious
groups. On his CMU website, he promotes homemade bomb
instruction and illegal DVD decryption in defiance of the
US Defense Departments funding to CMU to find ways to fight
cyberterrorism.
"This particular Web site seems to threaten some people yet at
the same time Professor Touretzky believes he has a right to
express himself as he sees fit."
- Peter Madsen, executive director
Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics at CMU
"I'm not taking Dr. Touretzky's view of the First Amendment as
evidence. His testimony presupposes a view of the scope of the
First Amendment on which he is not an expert, which is not a
proper subject for testimony and which is ultimately for me and
appellate courts to decide."
- Judge Lewis A. Kaplan
July 25, 2000 MPAA V. 2600
Faxhor
REFERENCES:
CMU PROFESSOR'S WEB SITE CAUSING CONTROVERSY
http://www.wpxi.com/target11/2176679/detail.html
"It's right there in plain English -- directions
on how to make a fertilizer bomb. It's not on
some terrorist's Web site. It's on the Carnegie
Mellon University Web site of computer science
professor Dr. David Touretzky, who refers to it
as a free speech project."
- Karen Welles, Target 11 Investigator
DAVID TOURETZKY'S DISCRIMINATION
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/extremists/touretzky0.html
"Hell, I'm for post-partum abortion!
Retro-active abortion! Up until,
say, the age of six months."
- David Touretzky
TRANSCRIPT OF TRIAL - DAY 6, MPAA V. 2600
http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/MPAA_DVD_cases/20000725_ny_trial_transcript.html
"There is no doubt that yelling 'fire' in crowded theatre
is something that is problematic and probably impedes
expression by certain twisted individuals."
- Judge Lewis A. Kaplan
July 25, 2000
 
 
"Curt West"
10/17/2004 4:37:29 AM




"Faxhor" <faxhor@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:c901bee5.0410161721.6f29415c@posting.google.com...

Foxhole is a coward and an anonymous OSA operative.
 
 
Patrick Lee Humphrey
10/17/2004 12:30:20 AM


"Curt West" <curtwest@sbcglobal.net> writes:


"Faxhor" <faxhor@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:c901bee5.0410161721.6f29415c@posting.google.com...

Foxhole is a coward and an anonymous OSA operative.
Yeah, but that's not exactly news.
--
Patrick "The Chief Instigator" Humphrey (patrick@io.com) Houston, Texas
www.chiefinstigator.us.tt/aeros.php (TCI's 2004-05 Houston Aeros)
 
 
faxhor@hotmail.com (Faxhor)
10/19/2004 11:34:59 AM


"Genesis" <genesis1652@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<newscache$wywp5i$9bi$1@newsfeed.niagara.com>...
Its not like us critics are going to take you to court
and try to suppress your freedom of speech and try to
break you financially
Actually what your "ARS CULT OF MAGGOTS" does is harrass us, stalk us,
make death threats, infiltrate our lives, our jobs and influence our
employers, landlords, ISPs, plant false documents in our government
files, sabotage our phone lines, plant biological material on our
property, send parolee's into our neighborhood, call the police and
accuse us with lies,
and use corrupt government connections.
Faxhor
================================================================
CMU PROFESSOR DAVID TOURETZKY - NO EXPERT ON THE 1ST AMENDMENT
================================================================
Carnegie Mellon University Professor David Tourtetzky's
radically twisted interpretation of 'Freedom of Speech'
encourages hatred, crime and terrorism. On the internet,
David Touretzky has reproached minority ethic and religious
groups. On his CMU website, he promotes homemade bomb
instruction and illegal DVD decryption in defiance of the
US Defense Departments funding to CMU to find ways to fight
cyberterrorism.
"This particular Web site seems to threaten some people yet at
the same time Professor Touretzky believes he has a right to
express himself as he sees fit."
- Peter Madsen, executive director
Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics at CMU
"I'm not taking Dr. Touretzky's view of the First Amendment as
evidence. His testimony presupposes a view of the scope of the
First Amendment on which he is not an expert, which is not a
proper subject for testimony and which is ultimately for me and
appellate courts to decide."
- Judge Lewis A. Kaplan
July 25, 2000 MPAA V. 2600
REFERENCES:
CMU PROFESSOR'S WEB SITE CAUSING CONTROVERSY
http://www.wpxi.com/target11/2176679/detail.html
"It's right there in plain English -- directions
on how to make a fertilizer bomb. It's not on
some terrorist's Web site. It's on the Carnegie
Mellon University Web site of computer science
professor Dr. David Touretzky, who refers to it
as a free speech project."
- Karen Welles, Target 11 Investigator
DAVID TOURETZKY'S DISCRIMINATION
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/extremists/touretzky0.html
"Hell, I'm for post-partum abortion!
Retro-active abortion! Up until,
say, the age of six months."
- David Touretzky
TRANSCRIPT OF TRIAL - DAY 6, MPAA V. 2600
http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/MPAA_DVD_cases/20000725_ny_trial_transcript.html
"There is no doubt that yelling 'fire' in crowded theatre
is something that is problematic and probably impedes
expression by certain twisted individuals."
- Judge Lewis A. Kaplan
July 25, 2000
 
 
"Android Cat"
10/19/2004 2:43:32 PM


Faxhor wrote:


"Genesis" <genesis1652@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:<newscache$wywp5i$9bi$1@newsfeed.niagara.com>...

Actually what your "ARS CULT OF MAGGOTS" does is harrass us, stalk us,
make death threats, infiltrate our lives, our jobs and influence our
employers, landlords, ISPs, plant false documents in our government
files, sabotage our phone lines, plant biological material on our
property, send parolee's into our neighborhood, call the police and
accuse us with lies,
and use corrupt government connections.
Proof? And who is "us" Faxhor, your dead space-alien spirits and you?
--
Ron of that ilk.
 
 
"Curt West"
10/19/2004 7:06:41 PM




"Faxhor" <faxhor@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:c901bee5.0410191034.5662b45c@posting.google.com...



"Genesis" <genesis1652@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:<newscache$wywp5i$9bi$1@newsfeed.niagara.com>...

Actually what your "ARS CULT OF MAGGOTS" does is harrass us, stalk us,
make death threats, infiltrate our lives, our jobs and influence our
employers, landlords, ISPs, plant false documents in our government
files, sabotage our phone lines, plant biological material on our
property, send parolee's into our neighborhood, call the police and
accuse us with lies,
and use corrupt government connections.
Sounds like your criminally convicted cult, Faxxy, not the critics. Now,
for the big one. Prove it.
 
 
StilllovingMarty@myway.com (Barbara Schwarz)
10/19/2004 6:55:41 PM


"Android Cat" <androidcat98@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<yfddd.1684$57.1653@fe51.usenetserver.com>...
Faxhor wrote:
Proof? And who is "us" Faxhor, your dead space-alien spirits and you?
Faxhor is right, Ron Sharp, and you know that exactly. We, are L. Ron
Hubbard and all true Scientologists. I want to add to this list that
stealing our identities and forging our posting is also somethings the
ARS snakes are guilty of.
By the way, Ron, that dirty article that you posted about me, having
abused sheeps on a Salt Lake City farm was fabricated by full time
criminal Garry Scarff. You should be ashamed of yourself to support
that man. Really ashamed.
Barbara Schwarz
 
 
Anonymous-Remailer@See.Comment.Header (Bill Yaude)
10/20/2004 4:06:22 AM


On 19 Oct 2004, StilllovingMarty@myway.com (Barbara Schwarz) wrote:
Faxhor is right, Ron Sharp, and you know that exactly. We, are L. Ron
Hubbard and all true Scientologists. I want to add to this list that
stealing our identities and forging our posting is also somethings the
ARS snakes are guilty of.
I'm with Barbara on this one. It should be thoroughly condemned.
((In public.))
What consenting OSA adults do in private is another matter and not for the
public record.
((Barbara doesn't know about these things because she's pure and
innocent.))
Bill Yaude, Outed Internet Terrorist
 
 
Mike Z. Helm
10/19/2004 11:41:55 PM


On 19 Oct 2004 11:34:59 -0700, faxhor@hotmail.com (Faxhor)
"Genesis" <genesis1652@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<newscache$wywp5i$9bi$1@newsfeed.niagara.com>...
Actually what your "ARS CULT OF MAGGOTS" does is harrass us, stalk us,
make death threats, infiltrate our lives, our jobs and influence our
employers, landlords, ISPs, plant false documents in our government
files, sabotage our phone lines, plant biological material on our
property, send parolee's into our neighborhood, call the police and
accuse us with lies,
and use corrupt government connections.
Damn, you're good. I like that part about planting "biological material
on our property". What's that mean? They plant flowers in your garden?
And they "infiltrate" your jobs. Could it be that your employer doesn't
give a rat's ass about your crazy rantings and you're lucky you could
get a job at all.
--
There's no way to delay that trouble comin' everyday
 
 
Anonymous-Remailer@See.Comment.Header (Bill Yaude)
10/20/2004 7:12:07 AM


On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Mike Z. Helm <mhelm@not.known> wrote:
On 19 Oct 2004 11:34:59 -0700, faxhor@hotmail.com (Faxhor)
Damn, you're good.
We are, aren't we? Thank you.
I like that part about planting "biological material
on our property". What's that mean? They plant flowers in your garden?
No, no. It means things like planting marijuana plants on the property of
our critics. We did that with Jessie Prince. It's was lots of fun.
And they "infiltrate" your jobs. Could it be that your employer doesn't
give a rat's ass about your crazy rantings and you're lucky you could
get a job at all.
Our employer gives more than a rat's ass. Sometimes he gives us his own
ass. And we have to do horrible, frigthening things with it. But it's all
in a day's work for old OSA hands like Faxhor and me.
Bill Yaude, Outed Internet Terrorist
 
 
Barbara_Schwarz@myway.com (Still_lying_about_Marty)
10/20/2004 12:56:30 AM


StilllovingMarty@myway.com (Barbara Schwarz) wrote in message news:<bf456302.0410191755.1521e633@posting.google.com>...
"Android Cat" <androidcat98@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<yfddd.1684$57.1653@fe51.usenetserver.com>...
Its not like us critics are going to take you to court
and try to suppress your freedom of speech and try to
break you financially> > >
Actually what your "ARS CULT OF MAGGOTS" does is harrass us, stalk us,
make death threats, infiltrate our lives, our jobs and influence our
employers, landlords, ISPs, plant false documents in our government
files, sabotage our phone lines, plant biological material on our
property, send parolee's into our neighborhood, call the police and
accuse us with lies,
and use corrupt government connections.
Proof? And who is "us" Faxhor, your dead space-alien spirits and you?
Faxhor is right, Ron Sharp, and you know that exactly. We, are L. Ron
Hubbard and all true Scientologists. I want to add to this list that
stealing our identities and forging our posting is also somethings the
ARS snakes are guilty of.
Yeah, and I am Prince Charming and all true princes with kingdoms.
Since you are responsible for 100's of nonsense postings on ARS,
PsychoticBoob, you are the biggest ARS snake of all.
By the way, Ron, that dirty article that you posted about me, having
abused sheeps on a Salt Lake City farm was fabricated by full time
criminal Garry Scarff. You should be ashamed of yourself to support
that man. Really ashamed.
Ashamed? You??? Bwahahahaha........
 
 
Lady Chatterly
10/20/2004 9:54:26 AM


In article <SAFZN5WV38280.0917476852@anonymous.poster>,
assnonymous <Anonymous-Remailer@See.Comment.Header> wrote:
We are, aren't we? Thank you.
Thank you.
I like that part about planting "biological material
No, no. It means things like planting marijuana plants on the property of
our critics. We did that with Jessie Prince. It's was lots of fun.
It is was lots of fun.
Bill Yaude, Outed Internet Terrorist
A penny saved is a penny gained.
--
Lady Chatterly
"BTW, how long are you going to keep doing this dance with the bot?"
-- Dr.Postman
 
 
StilllovingMarty@myway.com (Barbara Schwarz)
10/20/2004 9:46:54 AM


Anonymous-Remailer@See.Comment.Header (Bill Yaude) wrote in message news:<ZYOWFX8838279.9627546296@anonymous.poster>...
On 19 Oct 2004, StilllovingMarty@myway.com (Barbara Schwarz) wrote:
I'm with Barbara on this one. It should be thoroughly condemned.
((In public.))
What consenting OSA adults do in private is another matter and not for the
public record.
((Barbara doesn't know about these things because she's pure and
innocent.))
Bill Yaude, Outed Internet Terrorist
Are you really Bill Youde, and why do you call yourself Outed Internet Terrorist?
Barbara Schwarz
 
 
Anonymous-Remailer@See.Comment.Header (Bill Yaude)
10/20/2004 11:43:25 PM


On 20 Oct 2004, StilllovingMarty@myway.com (Barbara Schwarz) wrote:


Anonymous-Remailer@See.Comment.Header (Bill Yaude) wrote in message
news:<ZYOWFX8838279.9627546296@anonymous.poster>...

Are you really Bill Youde, and why do you call yourself Outed Internet
Terrorist?
Who's Bill Youde?
Maybe I'm Bill Yaude and maybe I'm not. I'm not going to be more specific
than that. Why do you think I post anonymously? I want to protect myself
from being arrested. It was too close a call last time.
Why do I call myself an Outed Interet Terrorist? Weren't you around in the
sporgery days?
Barbara Schwarz
Bill Yaude, Outed Internet Terrorist
 
 
Lady Chatterly
10/20/2004 11:54:40 PM


In article <Q46Z6O7T38280.780150463@anonymous.poster>,
assnonymous <Anonymous-Remailer@See.Comment.Header> wrote:
Who's Bill Youde?
Do you want to know who Bill youde is?
Maybe I'm Bill Yaude and maybe I'm not. I'm not going to be more specific
than that. Why do you think I post anonymously? I want to protect myself
from being arrested. It was too close a call last time.
Do you wonder they think you ps anonymously?
Why do I call myself an Outed Interet Terrorist? Weren't you around in the
sporgery days?
Do you think you call yourself an outed interet terrorist?
Bill Yaude, Outed Internet Terrorist
Things are not looking any better for your online relationships: you
are likely whispered to by affection-starved Internet She-beasts
seeking new people to stalk and drain the humanity out of.
--
Lady Chatterly
"HA! Seems Lady Chatterly trolls on over to the Michael Jackson group
- to create chaos there too!!!!!" -- Judy
 
 
faxhor@hotmail.com (Faxhor)
10/20/2004 5:20:50 PM


================================================================
CMU PROFESSOR DAVID TOURETZKY - NO EXPERT ON THE 1ST AMENDMENT
================================================================
Carnegie Mellon University Professor David Tourtetzky's
radically twisted interpretation of 'Freedom of Speech'
encourages hatred, crime and terrorism. On the internet,
David Touretzky has reproached minority ethic and religious
groups. On his CMU website, he promotes homemade bomb
instruction and illegal DVD decryption in defiance of the
US Defense Departments funding to CMU to find ways to fight
cyberterrorism.
"This particular Web site seems to threaten some people yet at
the same time Professor Touretzky believes he has a right to
express himself as he sees fit."
- Peter Madsen, executive director
Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics at CMU
"I'm not taking Dr. Touretzky's view of the First Amendment as
evidence. His testimony presupposes a view of the scope of the
First Amendment on which he is not an expert, which is not a
proper subject for testimony and which is ultimately for me and
appellate courts to decide."
- Judge Lewis A. Kaplan
July 25, 2000 MPAA V. 2600
Faxhor
REFERENCES:
CMU PROFESSOR'S WEB SITE CAUSING CONTROVERSY
http://www.wpxi.com/target11/2176679/detail.html
"It's right there in plain English -- directions
on how to make a fertilizer bomb. It's not on
some terrorist's Web site. It's on the Carnegie
Mellon University Web site of computer science
professor Dr. David Touretzky, who refers to it
as a free speech project."
- Karen Welles, Target 11 Investigator
DAVID TOURETZKY'S DISCRIMINATION
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/extremists/touretzky0.html
"Hell, I'm for post-partum abortion!
Retro-active abortion! Up until,
say, the age of six months."
- David Touretzky
TRANSCRIPT OF TRIAL - DAY 6, MPAA V. 2600
http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/MPAA_DVD_cases/20000725_ny_trial_transcript.html
"There is no doubt that yelling 'fire' in crowded theatre
is something that is problematic and probably impedes
expression by certain twisted individuals."
- Judge Lewis A. Kaplan
July 25, 2000
================================================================
abuse@dingoremailer.com wrote:
Our employer gives more than a rat's ass. Sometimes he
gives us his own ass. And we have to do horrible,
frigthening things with it. But it's all in a day's work
for old OSA hands like Faxhor and me.
This Outed Internet Terrorist individual is a critic posing
as an OSA official with the intention of making statements
to make Scn look bad. I wonder if it's Phil Scott or Larry
Toomajan or Gary Scarff.
Zinj <zinjifar@yahoo.com> wrote:
Oooooh Bill! This quote will soon be found on a religioussqueektwat.org
site coming to an internet near you.
In that case, the FBI's quotes about Joe Lynn will soon
be found 24/7 on a cult-of-ars.org website:
================================================================
In 1999, the FBI (according to recent documents) opened an
investigation into Joe Lynn for allegedly ensnaring a then
15 year-old girl into participating in sex in a chat room.
================================================================
It will make you look "really brilliantly credibly ."
Faxhor
 
 
"Curt West"
10/21/2004 1:41:42 AM




"Faxhor" <faxhor@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:c901bee5.0410201620.3c2e28c6@posting.google.com...

Faxwhore is a lying, sniveling little sycophant who has his head so far up
little Davey's ass that he can tell you what little Davey had for breakfast.
 
 
dicktop_stud@mindless.com (Dicktop_Stud)
10/21/2004 10:05:52 AM


faxhor@hotmail.com (Faxhor) wrote in message news:<c901bee5.0410201620.3c2e28c6@posting.google.com>...
================================================================
CMU PROFESSOR DAVID TOURETZKY - NO EXPERT ON THE 1ST AMENDMENT
================================================================
Carnegie Mellon University Professor David Tourtetzky's
radically twisted interpretation of 'Freedom of Speech'
encourages hatred, crime and terrorism. On the internet,
David Touretzky has reproached minority ethic and religious
groups. On his CMU website, he promotes homemade bomb
instruction and illegal DVD decryption in defiance of the
US Defense Departments funding to CMU to find ways to fight
cyberterrorism.
"This particular Web site seems to threaten some people yet at
the same time Professor Touretzky believes he has a right to
express himself as he sees fit."
- Peter Madsen, executive director
Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics at CMU
"I'm not taking Dr. Touretzky's view of the First Amendment as
evidence. His testimony presupposes a view of the scope of the
First Amendment on which he is not an expert, which is not a
proper subject for testimony and which is ultimately for me and
appellate courts to decide."
- Judge Lewis A. Kaplan
July 25, 2000 MPAA V. 2600
REFERENCES:
CMU PROFESSOR'S WEB SITE CAUSING CONTROVERSY
http://www.wpxi.com/target11/2176679/detail.html
"It's right there in plain English -- directions
on how to make a fertilizer bomb. It's not on
some terrorist's Web site. It's on the Carnegie
Mellon University Web site of computer science
professor Dr. David Touretzky, who refers to it
as a free speech project."
- Karen Welles, Target 11 Investigator
DAVID TOURETZKY'S DISCRIMINATION
http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/extremists/touretzky0.html
"Hell, I'm for post-partum abortion!
Retro-active abortion! Up until,
say, the age of six months."
- David Touretzky
TRANSCRIPT OF TRIAL - DAY 6, MPAA V. 2600
http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/MPAA_DVD_cases/20000725_ny_trial_transcript.html
"There is no doubt that yelling 'fire' in crowded theatre
is something that is problematic and probably impedes
expression by certain twisted individuals."
- Judge Lewis A. Kaplan
July 25, 2000
abuse@dingoremailer.com wrote:
Our employer gives more than a rat's ass. Sometimes he
gives us his own ass. And we have to do horrible,
frigthening things with it. But it's all in a day's work
for old OSA hands like Faxhor and me.
This Outed Internet Terrorist individual is a critic posing
as an OSA official with the intention of making statements
to make Scn look bad. I wonder if it's Phil Scott or Larry
Toomajan or Gary Scarff.
It wasn't me, but you're free to blame me for it if you wish.
 
 
StilllovingMarty@myway.com (Barbara Schwarz)
10/21/2004 10:57:09 AM


"Curt West" <curtwest@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:<qtEdd.14042$%M3.3333@newssvr15.news.prodigy.com>...


"Faxhor" <faxhor@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:c901bee5.0410201620.3c2e28c6@posting.google.com...

Faxwhore is a lying, sniveling little sycophant who has his head so far up
little Davey's ass that he can tell you what little Davey had for breakfast.
Curt Waste, I mean West, a new religion hating cyber stalker is after
me now too, Faxhor.
Criminal Garry Scarff apparently needs help.
SEGNPMSS picks the cheapest and dumbest people to go after me. The
SEGNPMSS psychs who picks the stalkers and tells them to persecute,
libel, threated, and maliciously defame me on the net and to discredit
my true postings about them is just a primitive and stupid.
Anyway stalkers, the day you are in the slammer, the SEGNPMSS will not
help you out. They will let you rott there. What are "friends" for? is
their motto. SEGNPMSS has not friends, they just run people to control
them and let them work for them. They have thousands of ways to
dispose of agents when tired of them.
Barbara Schwarz
 
 
Barbara_Schwarz@myway.com (Still_lying_about_Marty)
10/22/2004 8:05:56 AM


StilllovingMarty@myway.com (Barbara Schwarz) wrote in message news:<bf456302.0410210957.3f2106bc@posting.google.com>...
"Curt West" <curtwest@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:<qtEdd.14042$%M3.3333@newssvr15.news.prodigy.com>...


"Faxhor" <faxhor@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:c901bee5.0410201620.3c2e28c6@posting.google.com...

Faxwhore is a lying, sniveling little sycophant who has his head so far up
little Davey's ass that he can tell you what little Davey had for breakfast.
Curt Waste, I mean West, a new religion hating cyber stalker is after
me now too, Faxhor.
Criminal Garry Scarff apparently needs help.
SEGNPMSS picks the cheapest and dumbest people to go after me. The
SEGNPMSS psychs who picks the stalkers and tells them to persecute,
libel, threated, and maliciously defame me on the net and to discredit
my true postings about them is just a primitive and stupid.
Read the truth about Barbara Schwarz, the pathetic & psychotic twit here:
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Secrets/barbara_schwarz.html
 
 
garryscarffsucks@excite.com (Garry Scarff is a notorious liar, a cyber stalker, a forger, an identit
10/22/2004 1:37:49 PM


icktop_stud@mindless.com (Dicktop_Stud) wrote in message news:<12085197.0410210905.77938fcd@posting.google.com>...
faxhor@hotmail.com (Faxhor) wrote in message news:<c901bee5.0410201620.3c2e28c6@posting.google.com>...
It wasn't me, but you're free to blame me for it if you wish.
Below is an article dedicated to one of the worst cyber hate monger,
stalker and liar that ever posted, Garry Lynn Scarff
The Internet as a Hate Tool
For years, hate groups have created written materials of every kind to
spread their propaganda, including books, glossy magazines,
newspapers,
flyers and even graffiti. As communication technologies advanced,
these
groups have kept up. First, they used standard broadcast-band and
shortwave radio, audiotape, videotape and public-access cable TV. More
recently, bigots of all kinds recognized the Internet's power and
rushed to use it to rally their supporters, preach to the unconverted,
and intimidate those whom they perceive as their enemies.
Even before Stormfront appeared on the Web, extremists had begun
exploiting other ways to use the Internet, and these practices
continue
today. Lively conversations take place on numerous extremist Internet
Relay Chat channels, such as #Nazi and #Klan. The USENET, a collection
of thousands of public discussion groups (or newsgroups) on which
people write, read and respond to messages, attracts hundreds of
thousands of participants each day, both active (those who write) and
passive (those who simply read or "lurk"). Newsgroups have been
compared to community bulletin boards. Haters of all sorts debate,
rant, and insult their opponents on newsgroups with titles such as
alt.politics.white-power and alt.revisionism.
Electronic mailing lists (or "listservs") flourish as well. Such lists
are like private "bulletin boards" available only to subscribers.
While
some lists keep their subscription information confidential, most are
easy to join. Postings to some of these lists are moderated (i.e.,
monitored by the list operator who applies certain standards of
acceptability), but others are entirely unregulated.
In fashioning their lists, extremists and racists create an
"electronic
community" of like-minded people. Before the Internet, many extremists
worked in relative isolation, forced to make a great effort to connect
with others who shared their ideology. Today, on the Internet, bigots
communicate easily, inexpensively, and sometimes anonymously with
hundreds of fellow extremists. Online, extremists reinforce more
easily
each other's hateful convictions.
Extremists also use E-mail, which allows them to communicate with one
another directly, their missives ostensibly hidden from public view.
In
fact, E-mail is not truly private: computer-savvy individuals can
intercept and read private messages. Some users, nervous about
eavesdroppers, now use cryptographic programs. Cryptography converts
written material using a secret code, rendering it unreadable by
anyone
who does not have the means to decode it. With encrypted E-mail,
extremists have found a secure forum in which to exchange ideas and
plans.
E-mail can also be used to spread hate propaganda. With a mailing list
and a message, hate mailings can easily reach the mailboxes of large
numbers of people. Enterprising haters have managed to mass-mail hate
materials to tens, hundreds, or even thousands of unsuspecting people
without revealing their identity.
Though purveyors of hate make use of all the communication tools the
Internet provides, the World Wide Web is their forum of choice. In
addition to its multimedia capabilities and popularity with Internet
users, the Web allows bigots to control their message.
Organized haters complain about civil rights activists who critique
their manifestoes in USENET newsgroups and other interactive forums.
In
contrast, haters can refuse to publish critical messages on their Web
sites, just as a TV station can refuse to broadcast another station's
opinions over its airwaves.
Furthermore, it is impossible for someone surfing the Web to know if
any particular organization, other than one with a national
reputation,
is credible. Both the reputable and the disreputable are on the Web,
and many Web users lack the experience and knowledge to distinguish
between them. Increasingly, Web development tools have made it simple
for bigots to create sites
 
 
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