Tuesday, November 09, 2004

rhymes with yikes

Okay, so I believe in free-speech 100%, and actually consider myself a bit of an absolutist on the topic. But of course there's nothing in the First Amendment that means private companies like blogspot have to host shit like this. I won't quote from it, but I guess I'd call it a pro-Holocaust site -- I found it accidentally, while randomly pressing the "next blog" button on Blogspot blogs.


Anyway, I sent a message to Blogger pointing out the site and noting that their terms of service prohibits posting content that is "hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable." This was their response:


Date: 11/03/2004 14:52:31 -0800
From: "Blogger Support"
To: "Derek Rose {U 225777}"
Subject: Re: term of service violation- hate speech
Hello,

Thank you for your note. Blogger is a provider of content creation tools, not a mediator of that content. We allow our users to create blogs, but we don't make any claims about the content of these pages. In cases where a contact email address is listed on the page, we recommend working directly with the author to have this information removed or changed.

-Blogger Support

I wonder - did they even look at the site?? Anyway, I forwarded the message to webmaster[at]adl.org ... other than that, I wash my hands of it.
UPDATE 12/1/04: The site has been deleted.

1 Comments:

At 10:23 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Derek Rose and blogger won't do anything about it. When blog platforms like blogger don’t enforce their toss, they send the message that this kind of behavior is acceptable. I sympathize with you. I've been there myself.

 

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