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By George Brewer ∙ January 1, 2000
The Anti-Defamation League is anything but lazy. Every month or so they come up with some new campaign to show that they are on the side of the oppressed, the insulted, the injured. Of course, when the ADL was first formed in 1913, after the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and lynching of Leo Frank, there was…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ January 1, 2000
The ADL is consistent: it will always argue against a free press when the Holocaust controversy is being addressed. One of its routines is to use the—let's put this as carefully as we can—transparently stupid comparison of revisionist theory to the ADL's “hypothetical” paper arguing that Black slavery did not exist in America. This invented,…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ November 1, 1999
The Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) which prides itself as being in the “forefront of the battle against hate” has unwittingly launched a campaign based on the very principles that they claim to oppose. In August the SWC began protesting the sale of what they deemed, “Nazi Hate Propaganda” on the Internet. Specifically, the campaign was…
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ November 1, 1999
I've invented a kind of chess game in which those who are naturally disposed toward intolerance and closed minds have chosen to be my perennial opponents. Rather than rules to play by, there is a process during which each player makes up his or her own rules as the game progresses. No player has the…
By Lucas Neece ∙ November 8, 1998
[The Daily Kansan, 8 November 1998] I support The University Daily Kansan's decision to run an advertisement from the Committee for the Open Debate of the Holocaust (CODOH). However, those of us who know the truth about the Holocaust must respond. That is our responsibility as members of a society that places such a high…
By Adam Clayton Powell III ∙ October 30, 1998
10.30.98 The two-day-old U.S. copyright law, originally presented as an anti-piracy measure, is imposing unanticipated new restrictions on journalists, broadcasters and librarians. President Clinton signed the new Copyright Act into law Wednesday. It was the culmination of months of hard lobbying by the major Hollywood studios to increase charges for use of copyrighted material online….
By Bradley R. Smith ∙ September 30, 1998
Lexi Baugher, ad manager for The California Tech at California Institute of Technology, called to say The Tech would run the ad. On the 14th we discussed the layout of the ad by telephone and it was set to go on the 18th. I then received an e-mail message from their business manager: Dear Mr….
By Barry Steinhardt ∙ July 22, 1998
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 12:34:01 -0500To: [email protected]From: Dave Farber [email protected] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJuly 21, 1998 CONTACTS: Barry Steinhardt, EFF President, 212 549 2508, E-mail [email protected] Alexander Fowler, EFF Director of Public Affairs, 202 462 5826, E-mail [email protected] Electronic Frontier Foundation Reacts to Senate Passage of Two Internet Filtering Bills Statement of Barry Steinhardt President…
By David Thomas ∙ January 1, 1998
A dejected subscriber is printed and processed for banishment after being caught using one of AOL's forbidden words, “breast”, on-line. Cyber Police scoffed at his plaintive insistence that he was trying to say “beast” and that he “never could spell too good noway.” “A likely goddamned story!” they sniffed. “These animals will say anything to…
By Kenneth Lasson ∙ January 6, 1998
The recent debate at Johns Hopkins University over whether the student newspaper should have published an advertisement denying the existence of Nazi death camps is more than just an academic flap. At stake are profound questions of how a free society learns the lessons of history and, unique to America, the effect of constitutionally protecting…
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