A bunch of selfproclaimed uprooters try to impose their law on Internet. We shall resist these neo-totalitarian attempts on our freedom !
Is the pionneer deniers' site AAARGH living its last moments ? Eight associations (1) would like to believe it is. They have araigned in court, on emergency procedure, US providers of this site, ant the main French Internet access providers. (2) Their hope in grounded in the new law, called "Trust in the Digital Economy", passed in June 2004. The law says that the judge migh order any kind of measure to stop the damage caused by the content of an online communication service.
Antijewish hate. In a nutshell,
the US providers being out of reach, the judge may impose upon
the French access providers a filter that would forbid the French
user to access the concerned Internet URL's.
If the eight associations are aiming at AAARGH (Association of
Ancient Amateurs of War and Holocaust Tales) it is because their
site, founded in 1996, active in eight languages, is "known
and aknowledged as one of the most powerful transmitter of antijewish
hate on the Internet." Its declared aim is to show that "there
was no homicidal massive gassings in the German concentration
camps during the nazi periode".
Internet users may download freely 230 negationist books and pamphlets, including the works of Robert Faurisson or Jean Plantin, issues of the Akribeia journal, Bagatelles pour un massacre, by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, or Les Décombres, by Lucien Rebatet, described as "the most famous book among all those which were published during WW II" [All these books are more or less banned or their publication forbidden in today's France. trsl.]
Moving Does AAARGH feel threatened ? One of its two URLs does not function. The second one does and the publisher of the site, whose identity nobody knows, has started a third one. This successive moves raise the question of the efficiency of filters. Although the Movement against Racism and for the Friendship Among People (Mrap) joined the seven organizations in the action, Gerard Kerforn, member of the politburo, has expressed his doubts : «There will be a race. These people will migrate ceaselessly.» Marc Knobel, chairman of I accuse, is conscious about the risk, but he takes the responsability: «We'll pursue them as long as needed.» Audience in court on Monday 14 march.
(1) Union of the Jewish Students of France, SOS Racism, I accuse... International Action for Justice, French League for the Defense of Human and Citisen's Rights, Movement against Racism and for the Friendship Among People, Memory 2000, Union od the Auschwitz Deportees, The Central [Jewish] Consistory.
(2) France Telecom (Wanadoo), Free, AOL France, Tiscali Access, Neuf (nine) Telecom, Tele2 France, Suez Lyonnaise Telecom, T-Online France, Numericable, GIP Renater (A school community network).
Libération 8 March 2005
http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=280707
PARIS The Paris Court
of Justice ordered the US hosts of the Holocaust-denying web site
Aaargh to prevent any French web surfers from accessing the site
and to provide the court with the whereabouts of the site's authors.
In a former court decision, the judges told the plaintiffs to
sue the hosts before turning to the Internet access providers.
Three companies were identified as hosts of the incriminated web
site. Two of them, OLM and Globat, decided to terminate the contract
with Aaargh but the third one, ThePlanet.com, a company incorporated
in the US refused to do so. The French court ordered ThePlanet.com
to "prevent any access to the Internet site from the French
territory." The court also demanded that the company identify
the owners and operators of the web site.
The plaintiffs and the Internet access providers are due to meet
in court again on May 30.
Aaargh's web site provides free access to more than 200 antisemitic
and Holocaust-denying books and brochures, an offence according
to French law.
In a related issue, the French anti-racist organization MRAP deplored
the decision of the Paris Court of Appeals declaring Timothy Koogle
not guilty of incitement to racial hatred. While Koogle was CEO
of Yahoo, Nazi paraphernalia could be bought online through this
search engine, an offence according to French law. The Paris Court
said Koogle was the creator of Yahoo and not the owner of the
site selling the illegal material. Hence, he could not be held
responsible for the material sold on this particular site.
Not so, argued MRAP, Koogle should be held responsible, since
Yahoo created a dedicated directory path on its servers called
'White Pride.'
May 5, 2005 - 26 Nissan, 5765
Reprinted with permission from CRIF, the umbrella body
representing the organized Jewish community of France.
Jewish Tribune, The Trusted Voice of the Canadian Jewish Community
http://jewishtribune.ca/tribune/jt-050505-23.html
p2pnet.net News:- French ISPs
have been ordered to stop clients from accessing AAARGH, a website
hosted in the US which France's J'accuse says is disseminating
revisionist anti-Jewish propaganda, according to Yahoo! Actualités.
The judgement, from a Paris court, came on June 13 after an attempt
in April by the J'accuse to have the US sites hosting AAARGH block
access to French surfers brought only partial results.
Two of the three hosts, OLM and Globat had agreed to the demands
of the French court, but a third, ThePlanet.com, was still providing
access as of May 30, the cut off date for the first injunction
rendered in April.
The French court had also asked the American hosts to provide
detailed information about the people behind AAARGH.
The failure to comply with either portion of his judgment would
bring financial penalties to the American hosts, ruled the Paris
court, and under that decison, ThePlanet.com is racking up 5,000
euros (a little over $6,000) per day for continuing to host AAARGH
and it, OLM and Globat are also looking at 2,000 euros per day
for not providing the requested info on the site owners, says
ZDNet France.
The question, of course, is: can a French court enforce such legal
penalties on a foreign company based outside of France?
In the meanwhile, J'accuse is now trying the next step allowed
by French law: to block access on French soil.
The ISPs are France Télécom, Free, AOL, Tiscali,
Club Internet, Télé2, Suez Lyonnaise Télécom,
Neuf Télécom, NC Numéricâble and le
GIP Renater. They have 10 days to, as the judge has ordered, "put
in place all of the measures needed to block, on French soil,
access" to the content of the website in question, says Yahoo
France.
J'accuse president Marc Knobel believes "French law on electronic
commerce is very clear on the subject," says ZDNet France.
If the site authors are anonymous and if the host(s) refuse to
cooperate, blocking access is the next step. Knobel is known in
some circles for initiating the move to stop the sale of Nazi
items on eBay and other auction sites, says ZDNet.
Meanwhile, AAARGH, short for L'Ass.des Anciens Amateurs de Récits
de Guerre et d'Holocauste, was founded in 1996 and is still unabashedly
online. [Why should we feel abashed ? ]
According to the site, "Revisionists are people who want
to know if what's being said is true.". Mainly in French,
it provides, "40,000 pages of documentation [on the Holocaust
and Zionism], 200 books and 100 pamphlets, some [in fact
ALL] for 'free download.
Canadian p2pnet readers might recognise the name Ernst Zundel
among authors showcased.
There are pages in seven other languages, including English, Russian
and an Indonesian dialect, [No, Indonesia's official language]
although the pages sampled in English weren't very idiomatic.
[Sorry about that]
In expectation of being blocked, the homepage provides links to
anonymous sites.
p2pnet.net
http://p2pnet.net/story/5209
Internet providers should block French users from accessing a Holocaust denial site, Paris' district attorney said. The comments, made Monday, came during a trial on the issue of whether Web users should be allowed to access Aaargh, which in French stands for the Association of Amateur War and Holocaust Historians. The case, which went to trial March 8, was brought by eight anti-racist associations fighting to put into effect Internet filters to forbid access to Aaargh in France. A law passed in June 2004 would allow a French judge to order the site's host to shut down the site or prohibit access to it. Two of the site's hosts - OLM and Globat - have agreed to prohibit access, but a third - the American company ThePlanet.com - has refused to cooperate.
Briefs courtesy Jewish Telegraphic
Agency.
Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, 3 June 2005
http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=14190
Source: The Revisionist Forum
Victory against free speech
by the traditional enemies. France bans access to Revisionist
website AAARGH. Such is the action against those who do not believe
in the story we are dictated.
excerpt:
According to the site, "Revisionists are people who want
to know if what's being said is true.". Mainly in French,
it provides, "40,000 pages of documentation [on the alleged
Holocaust and Zionism], 200 books and 100 pamphlets, some for
free download.
A hour uit associations fighting
against the racism and the anti-Semitism announced on Monday to
have thrown(launched) a judicial procedure against the American
host of the revisionist and anti-semitic Internet site "
AAARGH " and against the ten providers of access and services
allowing to connect it.
Among associations at the origin of the procedure represent ANTI-RACIST
ORGANIZATION, the Union of the Jewish students of France ( UEJF),
the Movement against the racism and for the friendship between
the peoples ( MRAP), the Union of the transported convicts of
Auschwitz or still the central Consistory.
The reserved procedure, an emergency proceeding, will be examined
by the first vice-president of the county court of Paris Emmanuel
Binoche on Friday at 2:00 pm, indicate associations, which organize
the same day at 11:00 am a press conference to the Mrs Stéphane
Lilti's Parisian cabinet(office).
"AAARGH" - " Association of the former(ancient)
amateurs of narratives of war and holocaust " - proposes
on his(her,its) homepage " 230 brochures " anti-Semites
or Holocaust deniers in free access, as for example the works
of Robert Faurisson and Jean Plantin, numbers of the review Akribeia
or still the work " Trinket for a massacre " of Louis-Ferdinand
Céline.
Encourage the search(research)
By way of manifesto, the AAARGH
explains to post(show) these texts " in purely educational
purposes, to encourage the search(research), on a non-commercial
base and for a moderate use ".
In a communiqué, associations explain to rest(support)
"for the first time" their action(share) on the law
of June 21st, 2004 for the confidence in the digital economy.
This one notably stipulates that the justice can prescribe "
any measures appropriate(clean) to prevent(warn) a damage or to
make stop a damage caused by the contents of a service of communication
to the on-line public ".
The host of the attacked(affected) site is the company(society)
of American right(law) OLM-LLC, in Connecticut. Access providers
are France Telecom ( Wanadoo), Free, AOL France, Tiscali access,
telecom New(Nine), Tele 2 France, Suez Lyonnaise Telecom ( Noos),
T-Online France, Numéricable and Gip Renater.
Machine-translated by reverso.
http://nouvelobs.reverso.net/url/obsResult.asp?directions=65544&template=D
PARANOID, REALLY ?
There are so many of these websites, it sickens one with despair at hoping to ever free the world of this plague of hatred and intolerance. See our criteria at the end for what constitutes a Hate Group or Racist Group website. Specific descriptions of the hateful or racist content are provided to explain why these sites have been included.
AAARGH A blatantly anti-semitic holocaust denial site sponsored by the Islamic fundamentalist Radio Islam. Fans of Ayatollah Khomeini and terrorist groups like Hezbollah, these people suffer from the paranoid delusion that the U.S. government is run by Jews.
http://www.clubs.psu.edu/up/sayar/bu9.htm
The coverage has not been extensive in English. The press has considered it as a local French item and has not seen the matter of principles implied by the action. There was more coverage in German, for instance !
Anyway readers who can read
other languages will find a complete file on the attack against
the AAARGH website at
<http://aaargh.com.mx/fran/controlnet/controlnet.html>
or
<http://litek.ws/aaargh/fran/controlnet/controlnet.html>
or
<http://vho.org/aaargh/fran/controlnet/controlnet.html>
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Mail can be sent at PO Box 81475, Chicago, IL 60681-0475, USA..
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