RSSNetwork Solutions suspends Dutch anti-Koran site
By Tim Conneally | Published March 24, 2008, 1:37 PM
Network Solutions, a Web hosting and domain name registration company based out of Herndon, Virginia has temporarily suspended a site for anti-Islamist Dutch politician Geert Wilders.
A 15-minute long film made by Wilders and promoted on the site has not yet been released, but has already been met with public outcry as the lawmaker's position in the political spectrum is far enough to the right to be called reactionary. The botched blocking of a preview for Wilders' video was cited as a potential cause of a YouTube outage in February.
Little has been said about the actual content of the film, however Wilders' claims of Islam being fascistic are evident right in the title of the film, Fitna. The term is used in the Koran and can be interpreted as "strife, struggle." The choice of this word as a title is likely an allusion to Hitler's Mein Kampf ("my struggle/fight.")
As with many things, the incendiary nature of the title is somewhat dulled in translation, but In August, Wilders made remarks drawing parallels between the two books in Dutch periodical De Volkskrant. He said that if Mein Kampf is banned in the Netherlands, then so too should the Koran.
Wilders' motive was to make his film available on his site, as Dutch broadcasters refused to show it, and few want to be associated with such controversial material. Network Solutions has temporarily suspended the site to review whether the content is in violation of the company's Acceptable Use Policy.
Though controversy sometimes proves to be the best motivation for consumption of products (e.g. Take-Two's Manhunt 2), Wilders looks to be more rapidly accruing death threats than page views.
I guess the domain name is Network Solution's private property. How's your private property doing these days? 40% of mine goes to the state and federal government for taxes.
Full length free film: Freedom to Fascism
http://video.google.com/...id=-1656880303867390173
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|Some people don't know freedom from a hole in the wall. It was never meant to be an absolute. No country could survive if it were. It requires many responsibilities that some are all too unwilling to accept. So don't harp on about be oppressed. You have no clue.
BTW, we are seeing the mess the USA is in now because of all of those tax cuts for the rich and other nonsense policies of the republicans. It just doesn't work for the majority of people in a country to run things like the republicans do. Quality of life suffers and the US ranks at, or near, the bottom in this when compared to other Western nations.
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|So keep the site and just have a link to the video I'm sure LiveLeak will host it.
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|Multiculturists have turned Western Civilization into a one sided battle where those that didn't build the society are allowed to destroy it. Any efforts to defend our values are restricted whereas those who wish to attack them are allowed to do so. Attacks on Christianity are welcomed but attacks of the Muslim valued are forbidden. If being a Muslim is so important there are twenty nations to chose from. Freedom of speech is being seriously threatened in the US, Canada and Europe. It is often accompanied with death threats by fanatical Muslins. Are Christians allowed to issue death threats when their values are insulted? Why are we expected to accommodate Muslims when they don't reciprocate in their nations with regard to Jews and Christians?
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|100% Agree. What's more, NS shouldn't be the judge. There is nothing on his site to break the AUP, they're just dragging time because they are a bunch of pu***** that don't want to be linked to him in any way.
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|Fallacy:
Freedom of Speech does not apply.
This a business making a business decision.
Freedom of speech has nothing to do with it.
You are still more than welcome to be pissed off by it, as I would expect and admire, but let's tell it like it is, shall we?
NS has every right to do this. Just as we have every right stop using their services and the services of those who support them. We also have the right to speak out against them, whether directly, via email, or in public forums.
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|Yes, they have every right to do it.
However, they shouldn't have that right or should terminate Islamic extremism sites too.
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|Not on someone else's service. The owner of the service has final say on anything that goes over their service, including "speech".
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|"Wilders looks to be more rapidly accruing death threats than page views."
Well duh. Without a site it's difficult to get page views.
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|Hi Paul,
Isn't it a sad commentary on society when our Supreme Court considers nude dancing protected by "Freedom of Speech" and yet throughout the US, Canada and Europe censorship of statements critical to Muslims prevails? I would think we have to e-mail such articles, as the one above, to as many people as possible.
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|You really miss the point. Free speech does not included hate and talk that will result in violence. Not all speech is free. So many people think they are free to say what they want and that is not true. There are limits.
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|The original intent of freedom of speech was freedom of political speech, not of everything else. If it were than libel and slander would be protected, or even yelling fire in a crowded theatre when there is no fire. As I had said above freedom comes with many responsibilities that many are just too unwilling to accept as part and parcel of it.
Another thing. Freedom of belief is just that, belief, not conduct. Many don't realize this as well.
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|But yet, it's ok for Network Solutions to allow 1000's of other Islamic Jihadists website to be online... What is wrong with this picture?
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|We non-islamists don't make enough noise about it.
They (generally) go and set fire to flags, cars, and cause a huge fuss over things.
We just b**** on the internet a bit.
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