Call for help
I don't know if this is someone's deluded, sick idea of a joke, but there has to be some way we can block, tear down, or prosecute the perpetrators of this site. (I hesitate even to point to it here, but don't worry about clicking on the link - it's work safe, alright; just shocking and disgusting).
The domain was registered in early June through Domains By Proxy, a service whose very existence also deeply perturbs me. Their "value proposition" goes like this:
Did you know that for each domain name you register, anyone - anywhere, anytime - can find out your name, home address, phone
number and email address?
The law requires that the personal information you provide with every domain you register be made public in the "WHOIS" database. Your
identity becomes instantly available - and vulnerable - to spammers, scammers, prying eyes and worse.
But now there's a solution: Domains By Proxy!
So much for the transparent web. On the Internet no one knows you're a Nazi.
So these guys are the first on my target list of people to contact about this offensive site, as their own terms of service state:
Domains By Proxy will not do business with you, nor protect your identity, if you:
• Transmit spam, viruses or harmful computer programs;
• Violate the law or infringe a third party’s trademark or copyright;
• Engage in morally objectionable activities, including but not limited to those which are child pornographic, defamatory, abusive, harassing,
obscene, racist, or otherwise objectionable.
Beyond complaining to these people, I'm not sure where else to start. Where do you go to report a hate crime? I suppose the FBI tips page might be one place. I need to do some digging around to find out if there's a process or proven approach here.
A little further research into the offending site turns up something even more disturbing, btw - in behind the hosting service front, there's a deep archive of Holocaust Denial pages with some genuinely unpleasant material. This sub-site includes a link to FAEM, the "First Amendment Exercise Machine" which in turn links to the writings of one Eric Thomson (connected with the Anti Zionist Alliance, and probably has some connection to another neo-nazi organization, the Stormfront White Nationalist Community -- both sites feature the rubric "ORION", which translates as: "Our Race Is Our Nation").
I'm off to do some more research at Hatewatch and the Wiesenthal Center sites, but if anyone else has some suggestions for how we can combat this kind of thing, let me know by mail or comments.
(BTW, I'm aware that there is a lot of this kind of thing on the Net, just as there's a lot of pornography. That doesn't mean that it's any more acceptable. And no - I don't think the First Amendment counts here, AFAIK - there's nothing about a site like this one that should be considered protected speech, IMHO)
