- Many are worried by YouTube's recent announcement of
collaboration with the Anti-Defamation League to eliminate "cyber-hate"
on its website. If YouTube gives ADL too much control, free speech there
may be a thing of the past for critics of Zionism or Christian critics
of homosexuality. Censorship of the internet is especially ominous when
driven by definitions of "prejudice" and "hate" as
twisted as ADL's.
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- But there is hope. Most non-Zionist internet organizations
and servers do not share ADL's extreme, even paranoid definitions of hatred,
anti-Semitism, and homophobia. If internet content is factual, well-documented,
non-racist and not actually anti-Semitic, ADL will encounter difficulty
persuading YouTube to ban large numbers of politically incorrect users.
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- YouTube, Cisco, Microsoft, and Google still chafe from
public outrage and Congressional displeasure over cooperation with Chinese
bans of controversial internet content. Perhaps to compensate, these internet
giants vehemently oppose Australia's planned censorship of incoming and
outgoing "unlawful" internet content. (See, <http://www.truthtellers.org/alerts/australiatoendinternetfreedom.htm>Australia
to End Internet Freedom) The last thing YouTube wants now is to create
a reputation of Chinese-style censorship. That would only fuel emerging
Web 2.0 competitor websites, which could thrive on their boast of allowing
freedom of expression unrestrained by the ADL.
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- Several years ago, I witnessed the difficulty faced by
Jewish authorities wanting to remove my allegedly hateful film, The Other
Israel, from repeated showing on a Virginia cable access TV station. The
ACLU, persuaded to investigate and possibly militate for its removal, carefully
studied my film and proclaimed it hate-free!
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- Yes, it is to ADL's advantage to involve itself in any
(usually well-meaning) organizations' efforts to filter pornography and
violence from families and children. (An example is ADL's recent liaison
with AT&T and the Family Safety Online Institute.) Yet it is a different
matter to persuade these organizations that "hate" includes criticism
of Israel's mistreatment of Palestinians, the Talmud, Jewish control in
US politics and war making, or homosexuality. This could prove beyond ADL's
powers of persuasion or even coercion.
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- At the recent ADL-sponsored Global Summit on Internet
Hate, Christopher Wolf, head of the ADL-inspired International Network
Against Cyber-Hate (INACH), painted a bleak picture of difficulties faced
by ADL in ending free speech online. INACH, says Wolf, remains frustrated
by the internet's still-exploding outreach, universal invitation to participate,
and difficulty to monitor and censor. Thousands of "hate sites"
exist; even if ADL persuades servers to discontinue some of them, dozens
of other servers will host them. Many more spring up daily. Wolf gloomily
said the possibilities of cyber-hate expansion are exponential. He said
this is unlike anything Jewish watchdog groups have ever experienced.
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- Although I am against bona fide hate, this is good news
for lovers of freedom.
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- It is also good news that Wolf says all INACH and ADL
can do is educationally confront it right now.
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- That's fair enough. ADL can "educate" through
lies and misinformation. As long as we can educate through facts, truth
will prevail. Historically, when truth is allowed to exist in the sunshine
of open unrestrained scrutiny by mankind, it will eventually dispel lies.
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- When the internet was first created, many feared the
worldwide web would become an anti-Christ tool to unite the world in global,
Orwellian mind-control and governance. Yes, it has proven a boon to pornographers.
But just as the Roman roads spread Christianity throughout the Roman Empire,
so the internet now provides global resistance to the greatest threat civilization
has ever encountered: international Jewish supremacism.
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- Sometimes after dark and overcast days, the setting sun
shines under the clouds for a few minutes, gloriously irradiating the earth
before darkness. By God's grace, we are experiencing a period of unrestrained
opportunity to shed such light worldwide. Let us use the internet wisely,
moderately, in a factual, documented way. I believe that whatever ADL may
do in the highest echelons, or behind the scenes, God will honor such truth-telling
and humanity at large will respect it.
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- Especially if we can prevent a U.S. federal hate crimes
law from being enacted this winter, a new era of light and freedom may
just be dawning.
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