[WikiEN-l] The same Censorious "ILK" is alive and well within Wikipedia!

[Mr Paul Vogel]

 The same Censorious "ILK" is alive and well within
Wikipedia!

This lying and hypocritical and slanderous "ilk" is
the same one that is trying to block, censor, and ban
PAUL VOGEL!!!!

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Anti-Semitic 'Jew' site top of Google search 
 
 
   
Mar. 31, 2004 22:56  | Updated Apr. 2, 2004 18:31
Anti-Semitic 'Jew' site top of Google search
By MICHAEL MYLREA


What is a Jew? Those hoping to find out from a Google
search are in for an unpleasant surprise. The first of
1.75 million entries that appear when you type "Jew"
into the search engine is an anti-Semitic site. 

This discovery by a New York real-estate developer,
among others, has sparked a cyberspace showdown, and a
bid to alter the situation by a small band of Internet
experts. 

 
  

While surfing the Web from his New York home,
real-estate investor Steven Weinstock was shocked to
find Jew Watch, filled with propaganda similar to that
used by the Nazis. 

"At first I felt surprised, and then those feelings
turned to shock," he said. 

What upset him most is not that hatemongers might be
publishing such lies, but that any person looking to
find out about Judaism would be offered choices such
as the "Jewish Controlled Press," "Jewish World
Conspiracies," "Jewish Media Lies," and "Jewish
Banking and Financial Manipulations." Under one of the
categories, titled "Revisionists – 6,000,000 Jews DID
NOT DIE," there are dozens of links to articles
dedicated to Holocaust revisionism. 

Weinstock has been working to get rid of the site.
Last Saturday, he launched his own Web site, called
Remove Jew Watch, containing a petition which received
more than 3,000 signatures in its first 48 hours –
1,500 on Monday alone. He also wrote an e-mail to
Google, demanding that it remove the site. 

In an e-mail response, Google refused: "Unfortunately,
no computer can assess the morality, tastefulness, or
honesty of a site's content. Results are determined by
computer algorithms using thousands of factors to
calculate a page's relevance to a given query." 

Emboldened by Google's refusal, Daniel Sieradski,
editor of the Jew School, a site devoted to Jewish
fringe culture, decided to take matters into his own
hands. Using a method called Google bombing, which
exploits a quirk in Google's algorithms, he hoped to
raise another site to the No. 1 rank. 

"I decided to issue a call to arms on my Web site,"
Sieradski said. "Within a week, my proposal caught the
attention of other Jewish bloggers [keepers of
Web-based diaries] in the US, Canada, and Israel." 

Sieradski's efforts paid off. The Wikipedia
encyclopedia listing for "Jew," which just a week ago
held no rank on Google, rose to the fourth-highest
entry. But Sieradski is still not satisfied. 

"Our work is not yet done," he said. "We've got quite
a way to go before we reach No. 1, and then start to
push Jew Watch completely off the first page." 

Jew Watch's founder, Frank Weltner, did not respond to
enquiries from the The Jerusalem Post. 

Jew Watch's description of itself is bland: "Archive
of essays, articles, and on-line books about a
perceived international Jewish conspiracy: Keeping a
Close Watch on Jewish Communities & Organizations
Worldwide." 

Inside, a dozen or so articles suggest that Jews are
living out The Protocols of The Elders of Zion – a
forgery that has fueled Jewish persecution for more
than a century. 

Perversely, the site also has links to Jewish
community and civil rights organizations such as B'nai
B'rith, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the
Simon Wiesenthal Center, but lists them as "Jewish
Hate Groups." 

"If it means hating extremists, racists, and
anti-Semites, then this title is well deserved," said
Dr. Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal
Center in Jerusalem. "Not to fight against these
groups increases their potential to poison the minds
of millions." 

There is an inherent danger when a hate site
masquerades as an academic resource, said Brian Marcus
of the civil-rights division of the Anti-Defamation
League. 

"One of our major concerns is that children unable to
discern what is true will stumble onto these hate
sites," he said. "There have been many cases where
children unknowingly turn in school reports that
contain anti-Semitic and racist remarks." 

Stopping hate sites has been difficult, said Zuroff.
"What is going on is really outrageous; they can get
away with saying the worst things: lies, anti-Semitic,
xenophobic, and racist remarks. And yet all of our
efforts to date to get these sites off the Web have
been unsuccessful because the First Amendment enables
people to make racist and anti-Semitic remarks." 

Another factor is that censorship laws in America
focus on sexual content, said Lee Tein, a senior staff
attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a
group dedicated to preserving on-line civil liberties.


"For American censors, sex has always been the big
issue," said Tein. "The First Amendment tends to be
understood as being especially protective of political
speech, and that puts racist or hate speech in a
different realm." 

Education is the best form of defense, said Laura Kam
Issacharoff, co-director of the Anti-Defamation League
office in Jerusalem. "We have long been proponents of
educating the American public about hatred on the
Internet, though as representatives of a minority, we
prefer to adhere to the democratic values opposed to
censorship."



   




	
		
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