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The '''Stormfront White Nationalist Community''' is a [[white pride]] internet |
The '''Stormfront White Nationalist Community''' is a [[white pride]] internet [[forum]] and has the motto "White Pride World Wide". The site owner refers to Stormfront strictly as a [[White nationalist]] website{{Fact|date=August 2007}}. Critics and the media describe it as a [[Neo-Nazi groups of the United States|Neo-Nazi]] organization and accuse it of promoting [[racism]] and [[hate speech]] and of serving as a forum for the advocacy of violence.<ref>[http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/12/5/143556/393 "RedState, White Supremacy, and Responsibility"], ''[[Daily Kos]]'', [[December 5]], [[2005]]</ref><ref name="FOX">[[Bill O'Reilly (commentator)|Bill O'Reilly]], [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,86338,00.html "Circling the Wagons in Georgia"], ''[[Fox News]]'', [[May 08]], [[2003]]</ref><ref>[http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2001/dtv2001-0023.html "WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center: Case No. DTV2001-0023"], [[WIPO]], [[January 13]], [[2002]]</ref> <!-- <ref>[[Chip Berlet]], [http://notinmycounty.org/?p=96 "The Hard Edge of Hatred"] ''[[The Nation]]'', [[August 23]], [[2006]] </ref><ref>[http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05023/446341.stm "Jared Taylor, a racist in the guise of 'expert'"], ''[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]'', [[January 23]], [[2005]]</ref> --> It has been listed<ref>Southern Poverty Law Center [http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=363 Hate on the Net], ''Intelligence Report'', Winter 1999</ref> as a [[hate site]], and a number of internet [[Content-control software|content filters]] prevent access to it.<ref>[http://news.com.com/2100-1023-963132.html "Google excluding controversial sites"] ''CNet News'', October 23, 2002</ref> |
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Stormfront calls itself a "Racialist discussion board for pro-White activists and anyone else interested in White survival".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php/welcome-guidelines-posting-4359.html |title=Welcome to the Stormfront discussion board! |accessdate=2007-05-20 |format=HTML |work= }}</ref> |
Stormfront calls itself a "Racialist discussion board for pro-White activists and anyone else interested in White survival".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php/welcome-guidelines-posting-4359.html |title=Welcome to the Stormfront discussion board! |accessdate=2007-05-20 |format=HTML |work= }}</ref> |
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Type of site | Forum |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Don Black |
| Created by | Don Black |
| URL | http://www.stormfront.org |
- For other uses, see Stormfront
The Stormfront White Nationalist Community is a white pride internet forum and has the motto "White Pride World Wide". The site owner refers to Stormfront strictly as a White nationalist website[citation needed]. Critics and the media describe it as a Neo-Nazi organization and accuse it of promoting racism and hate speech and of serving as a forum for the advocacy of violence.[1][2][3] It has been listed[4] as a hate site, and a number of internet content filters prevent access to it.[5]
Stormfront calls itself a "Racialist discussion board for pro-White activists and anyone else interested in White survival".[6]
Controversies and criticism
Bill O'Reilly
In May 2003, Fox News Channel host Bill O'Reilly reported on a segregated prom being held in Georgia and posted a poll on his website asking his viewers if they would send their own kids to one. A link to the poll was posted on Stormfront and messages subsequently posted there implied that a mass of readers had duly voted in order to skew the poll in favor of segregation. O'Reilly reported this the following week and refused to read the final results due to this, citing Stormfront as the culprit by name and referring to it as a "Neo-Nazi organization."[2][7]
Doug Hanks
In August 2005, a candidate for city council of Charlotte, North Carolina dropped out of the race after it was revealed that he had posted on Stormfront. Republican Doug Hanks had posted more than 4,000 times over the previous three years using the name "Snarkie". In one comment he called African-Americans "rabid beasts". Hanks, a writer and actor from Connecticut, said that his postings were intended to gain the trust of Stormfront users in order to help him write a novel. "I did what I thought I needed to do to establish myself as a credible white nationalist."[8]
Web Censorship
Stormfront is listed by many hate group watchdog organizations as a white supremacist and hate site, and as a result it's blocked by some Internet filters commonly used in public places.[9][10] In Germany access to Stormfront is blocked by some ISPs in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.[11][12] Stormfront also accuses one of the largest American internet providers, AOL, of practicing censorship by blocking its subscribers from accessing Stormfront.[13]
Neo-Nazism and violence
Stormfront describes itself primarily as a "White Nationalist Community". Stormfront has featured the writings of William Pierce, the leader of the National Alliance. In the past, Stormfront administrators have been accused of censoring some posts critical of the National Alliance. Stormfront also hosts a copy of Adolf Hitler's book Mein Kampf and extolls him as a man who "refused to surrender".[14] Black himself was a member of the American Nazi Party in the 1970s.[15] A margin of Stormfront users describe themselves as National Socialists, while most others dont subscribe to such ideologies and self-describe as white nationalists and white separatists[citation needed]
Black and Stormfront have been known to advocate the use of violence. In 1981, Black was arrested as he prepared to board a boat stocked with weapons and ammunition to invade Dominica in what he and his accomplices dubbed Operation Red Dog. Black was sentenced to three years in prison for his role in the attempted invasion. Black is a former "Grand Wizard", or national director, of the Ku Klux Klan.[citation needed]
Black and others on Stormfront often predict the possibility of a future race war, such as the one depicted in the novel The Turner Diaries. Such a future race war, and how to best prepare for it, is a frequent topic for discussion on Stormfront. For example, in 2006, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported a discussion on Stormfront which encouraged white nationalists to join the military, in order to learn the skills necessary for winning such a race war.[16][17] Speaking of such a future war in a 1998 interview for New Times, a local newspaper, Black has said, "We want to take America back. We know a multicultural Yugoslav nation can't hold up for too long. Whites won't have any choice but to take military action. It's our children whose interests we have to defend."[15]
References
- ^ "RedState, White Supremacy, and Responsibility", Daily Kos, December 5, 2005
- ^ a b Bill O'Reilly, "Circling the Wagons in Georgia", Fox News, May 08, 2003
- ^ "WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center: Case No. DTV2001-0023", WIPO, January 13, 2002
- ^ Southern Poverty Law Center Hate on the Net, Intelligence Report, Winter 1999
- ^ "Google excluding controversial sites" CNet News, October 23, 2002
- ^ "Welcome to the Stormfront discussion board!" (HTML). Retrieved 2007-05-20.
- ^ "Hate groups thrive in cyberspace", Santa Cruz Sentinel, August 22, 1999
- ^ "Internet postings end politico's shot", Columbia Daily Tribune, August 6, 2005; see also: Charlotte Observer (registration required)
- ^ Statement of the Anti-Defamation League on hate on the internet before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation", United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, May 20, 1999
- ^ Extremism in cyberspace: the legal issues affecting internet hate speech", Anti-Defamation League, 2000
- ^ "German fined for publishing neo-Nazi web links", The Register, October 2004
- ^ "Internet censorship", World Future Fund, 2002
- ^ http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php/aol-censors-stormfront-commits-libel-251497p3.html
- ^ Adolph Hitler "Mein Kampf" hosted on Stormfront
- ^ a b NEW TIMES Feb. 19-25, 1998 article "The Racist Next Door" (archived on stormfront.org)
- ^ Southern Poverty Law Center "A Few Bad Men", David Holthouse, Summer 2006
- ^ New York Times "Hate Groups Are Infiltrating the Military, Group Asserts", John Kifner, 7 July 2006. (archived on truthout.org)