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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 http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4851. Censorship of the internet is especially ominous when driven by definitions of “prejudice” and “hate” as twisted as ADL’s.
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.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. 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.
Several years ago, I witnessed the difficulty faced by Jewish complainers to persuade organizations to agree with their definitions of “hate.” Such Jews, wanting to remove my allegedly hateful film, The Other Israel, from repeated showing on a Virginia cable access TV station, persuaded the ACLU to investigate and possibly militate for its removal. ACLU carefully studied my film and proclaimed it hate-free!
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.
At the recent ADL-sponsored Global Summit on Internet Hate, Christopher Wolf, head of the ADL-inspired International Network Against Cyber-Hate (http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2507 have ever experienced.
Although I am against bona fide hate, this is good news for lovers of freedom.
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