----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 7:21
PM
Subject: [CTRL] Protest Yahoo Sponsorship
of Racist/Fascist Groups
Dear Friends,
I am passing on this information as I feel this is
something that concerns us all ...
It may shock you as it did me to read this and the
attachments but I hope you will not feel offended by my sending it. If you do,
then feel free to delete it. Otherwise I would ask you to do three
things:
(1) Go down to the bottom of this e-mail to the List
of 28 Yahoo "clubs" and copy them to a blank e-mail.
(2) Write to Yahoo and demand that they enforce their
own contract by
immediately removing these "clubs" and denying them any
additional free
Yahoo services. The address for complaints is <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Here is a sample letter:
"It is impossible to believe that Yahoo cannot understand that these
groups (see List) violate the very Terms Of Service that Yahoo imposes on
these "clubs." These terms state that "You agree to not use the Service to: a.
upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any Content that is unlawful,
harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar,
obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially,
ethnically or otherwise objectionable....
Like many others, I am writing to demand that Yahoo should enforce
its own regulations by immediately removing these "clubs" and denying them any
additional free Yahoo services."
(3)Inform your friends, members of your
church/synagogue, club, mailing list, and
other organizations of Yahoo's
sponsorship of these groups so that they can
also protest.
"For evil to triumph it is only necessary for the Good
to do nothing."
Rory
Winter.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 5:25 PM
Subject: Protest Yahoo Sponsorship of Racist/Fascist Groups
> Dear friend,
>
> I am writing to you about a
deepening of the situation on the internet
> where Yahoo is providing
free internet services for fascist and other
> hate-based organizations
to help those groups spread their message.
>
> Readers originally
wrote to us about Yahoo's sponsorship of a free "club"
> for Matt Hale's
virulently racist and anti-Semitic World Church of the
> Creator. Many
complained to Yahoo.
>
> But upon checking how Yahoo has acted on
these complaints we discovered a
> host of other racist and hate-based
groups all receiving free Yahoo support
> to spread their propaganda.
Some of these include the Knights of the Ku
> Klux Klan, Aryan Power,
Pure White Rage, Aryan Nazi SS Skinheads, Christian
> Identity Club, and
the AntiAsian and Minority Groups.
>
> It is difficult to
impossible to believe that Yahoo cannot understand that
> these groups
violate the very Terms Of Service that Yahoo imposes on these
> "clubs."
These terms state that "You agree to not use the Service to: a.
>
upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any Content that is
unlawful,
> harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious,
defamatory, vulgar,
> obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy,
hateful, or racially,
> ethnically or otherwise
objectionable...."
>
> WHAT YOU CAN DO:
>
> Write to
Yahoo and demand that they enforce their own contract by
> immediately
removing these "clubs" and denying them any additional free
> Yahoo
services. The address for complaints is <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
>
> Inform your friends, members of your synagogue, club, mailing list,
and
> other organizations of Yahoo's sponsorship of these groups so that
they can
> also protest.
>
> We are not demanding that
Yahoo do anything other than what it has promised
> in its Terms Of
Service: stop providing free resources for hate-oriented
> action
groups.
>
> You can verify the material about Yahoo via these
URLs:
>
> Yahoo Clubs For
"White_Pride_and_Racialism"
>
>
> Yahoo Terms of Service
> <
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/>
>
> With anti-fascist greetings,
>
> --
tallpaul (Paul Kneisel)
> editor: The
Internet Anti-Fascist
>
> PS: Those of us active in the old
campaign against the Usenet news group
> called
<rec.music.white-power> remember making one big mistake in our
>
organizing. We did not include a "cut off date" for the protests; as a
>
result, protests were still circulating on the net a year later!
Learning
> from this, we have created a special "Status of protest"
at
> <
http://www.anti-fascism.org>. We can use this to
inform people if the
> racist / fascist groups are still up and the
protest continues or whether
> they've been removed so that people need
not complain anymore.
