Re: HateWatch Press Release: Activism vs Hacktivism

[Parsifal <noosph@noosph.org>]

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I totally agree with this message.

To hack a site under the pretext it doesn't match one's ideas about what 
is a "good cause" turns hacktivist into the same kind of intolerant 
people they are supposed to fight.

We don't need censors, whoever they may be, governments or hacktivists.

Parsifal



You wrote on 5/09/99 4:40 from Art McGee amcgee@igc.org

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>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: 5 Sep 1999 01:22:36 -0000
>From: HateWatch Updates <info@hatewatch.org>
>Subject: HateWatch Press Release
>
>HateWatch Updates - http://hatewatch.org
>
>HateWatch Press Release: Activism vs Hacktivism
>
>On September 4, 1999 the Ku Klux Klan web site at www.kkk.com was
>vandalized. The entire KKK web site was replaced with the contents of the
>HateWatch web site. HateWatch has not nor ever will condone such behavior.
>Not only is this type of action illegal but it has the effect of calling
>into question the legitimacy of the online civil rights movement as a
>whole. In the strongest possible terms, HateWatch condemns this type of
>"hacktivism" against the Ku Klux Klan web site or any web site, regardless
>of the rationale. 
>
>This week, David Goldman founder and Director of HateWatch was interviewed
>for an article in the Village Voice concerning the recent hacking of the
>anti-gay web site godhatesfags.com. Mr. Goldman stated that hacking hate
>sites, "...as a tactic to be used by the civil rights community, is a
>misguided one. Limiting someone's speech...even temporarily takes away one
>of the greatest advantages the civil rights community has on the Web:
>exposing bigots using their own words." 
>
>Rather than defacing racist web sites which only hurt the cause, HateWatch
>invites those that are interested to volunteer at HateWatch or another
>similar organization. Education and participation, not acts of vandalism,
>will make the web a more tolerant community. 
>
>
>HateWatch (www.hatewatch.org), founded in 1996, is a nonprofit
>organization that combats the growing and evolving threat of online
>bigotry. 
>
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