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In 2002, search engine [[Google]] acted to remove Stormfront.org from their French and German [[Index (search engine)|indexes]] in order to comply with French and German legislation forbidding links to websites which host white supremacist, [[Holocaust denial|Holocaust-denying]], [[historical revisionism|historical revisionist]] or similar material.<ref name="McCullagh">{{cite news|url=http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-963132.html|title=Google excluding controversial sites|last=McCullagh|first=Declan|authorlink=Declan McCullagh|date=October 23, 2002 |publisher=[[CNet News]]|accessdate=July 20, 2007}}</ref> The attempt by the German government to block Stormfront was unsuccessful; although most of the site's content is illegal under German law, it is protected by the [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution]].<ref name="Johansen">{{cite book | last=Johansen|first=Bruce E.|editor= Johansen, Bruce E.| title = Enduring Legacies: Native American Treaties and Contemporary Controversies | publisher = Praeger Publishers | location = New York | date= May 30, 2004 | isbn = 0313321043 |chapter=The New Terminators: A Guide to the Anti-Treaty Movement|page=323|url=http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=_2acRaHk8l8C&dq=Enduring+Legacies&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=Vm01HSlea1&sig=l2wbUmeIXAq3uwfv7upbn8spiwc&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result#PPR6,M1}}</ref> Stormfront returned to the news in May 2003, when its members targeted an online poll on a racial issue. [[Fox News Channel]] host [[Bill O'Reilly (commentator)|Bill O'Reilly]] reported on a racially segregated [[prom]] being held in [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] and posted a poll on his website asking his viewers if they would send their own children 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".<ref name="FOX">{{cite news|url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,86338,00.html|title=Circling the Wagons in Georgia|last=O'Reilly|first=Bill|date=May 8, 2003|work=[[Talking Points]]|publisher=Fox News|accessdate=July 20, 2008}}</ref> In a prominent [[outing]] of one of its typically pseudonymous members, [[Doug Hanks]] withdrew from seeking the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] nomination for one of four seats on the city council of [[Charlotte, North Carolina]] in August 2005 after it was revealed that he had posted on Stormfront. Hanks, a writer and actor from [[Connecticut]], had posted more than 4,000 comments over the previous three years, including one in which he wrote, "Let's treat all the Blacks like the rabid beasts they are."<ref name="hanks"/> Hanks claimed that his postings were intended to gain the trust of Stormfront users in order to help him write a novel, saying "I did what I thought I needed to do to establish myself as a credible white nationalist."<ref name="hanks">{{cite news|url=http://archive.columbiatribune.com/2005/aug/20050806news010.asp|title=Internet Postings End Politico's Shot|date=August 6, 2005|work=Columbia Daily Tribune |agency=[[Associated Press]]|accessdate=March 17, 2009}}</ref> |
In 2002, search engine [[Google]] acted to remove Stormfront.org from their French and German [[Index (search engine)|indexes]] in order to comply with French and German legislation forbidding links to websites which host white supremacist, [[Holocaust denial|Holocaust-denying]], [[historical revisionism|historical revisionist]] or similar material.<ref name="McCullagh">{{cite news|url=http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-963132.html|title=Google excluding controversial sites|last=McCullagh|first=Declan|authorlink=Declan McCullagh|date=October 23, 2002 |publisher=[[CNet News]]|accessdate=July 20, 2007}}</ref> The attempt by the German government to block Stormfront was unsuccessful; although most of the site's content is illegal under German law, it is protected by the [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution]].<ref name="Johansen">{{cite book | last=Johansen|first=Bruce E.|editor= Johansen, Bruce E.| title = Enduring Legacies: Native American Treaties and Contemporary Controversies | publisher = Praeger Publishers | location = New York | date= May 30, 2004 | isbn = 0313321043 |chapter=The New Terminators: A Guide to the Anti-Treaty Movement|page=323|url=http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=_2acRaHk8l8C&dq=Enduring+Legacies&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=Vm01HSlea1&sig=l2wbUmeIXAq3uwfv7upbn8spiwc&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result#PPR6,M1}}</ref> Stormfront returned to the news in May 2003, when its members targeted an online poll on a racial issue. [[Fox News Channel]] host [[Bill O'Reilly (commentator)|Bill O'Reilly]] reported on a racially segregated [[prom]] being held in [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] and posted a poll on his website asking his viewers if they would send their own children 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".<ref name="FOX">{{cite news|url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,86338,00.html|title=Circling the Wagons in Georgia|last=O'Reilly|first=Bill|date=May 8, 2003|work=[[Talking Points]]|publisher=Fox News|accessdate=July 20, 2008}}</ref> In a prominent [[outing]] of one of its typically pseudonymous members, [[Doug Hanks]] withdrew from seeking the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] nomination for one of four seats on the city council of [[Charlotte, North Carolina]] in August 2005 after it was revealed that he had posted on Stormfront. Hanks, a writer and actor from [[Connecticut]], had posted more than 4,000 comments over the previous three years, including one in which he wrote, "Let's treat all the Blacks like the rabid beasts they are."<ref name="hanks"/> Hanks claimed that his postings were intended to gain the trust of Stormfront users in order to help him write a novel, saying "I did what I thought I needed to do to establish myself as a credible white nationalist."<ref name="hanks">{{cite news|url=http://archive.columbiatribune.com/2005/aug/20050806news010.asp|title=Internet Postings End Politico's Shot|date=August 6, 2005|work=Columbia Daily Tribune |agency=[[Associated Press]]|accessdate=March 17, 2009}}</ref> |
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Recently, a large number of Stormfront members, including people who have donated money to the site and have contributed a significant number of WN (white nationalist) posts have had their accounts permanently disabled, leading many to suspect that Don Black and the moderators of Stormfront are operating as a branch of the Southern Poverty Law Center, gathering information about White Patriots under the guise of a racialist web site. |
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===Popularity and later history=== |
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Type of site | Forum |
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Available in | English, Italian, Serbian, Portuguese, Spanish, Croatian, French, Gaelic, Dutch, Russian, Afrikaans, Norwegian, Hungarian |
Owner | Don Black |
Created by | Don Black |
URL | http://www.stormfront.org |
Commercial | No |
Registration | Required to post |
The Stormfront White Nationalist Community is a white nationalist and supremacist[a] neo-Nazi[b] Internet forum that has been described as the Internet's first major hate site.[c]
Stormfront began as an online bulletin board system in the early 1990s before being established as a website in 1995 by former Ku Klux Klan leader and white nationalist activist Don Black. It received national attention in the United States after being featured as the subject of a documentary, Hate.com. Stormfront has been the subject of controversy after being removed from French and German Google indexes, for targeting an online FOX News poll on racial segregation, and for having as one of its members a candidate for political office from a major political party. Its popularity has grown since the 1990s, attracting attention from watchdog organizations that oppose racism and antisemitism.
The website is structured as a theme-based discussion forum with numerous boards for topics including ideology, science, revisionism, homeschooling and self defense. Stormfront also hosts news stories, a merchandise store, content aimed at children and extensive links to racist organizations. The site has a logo featuring a Celtic cross common to neo-fascist iconography surrounded by the motto "White Pride World Wide".
History
Early history
Stormfront began in 1990 as an online bulletin board for white nationalist activist David Duke's campaign for United States Senator of Louisiana.[1] The name "Stormfront" was chosen for its connotations of a political or militant front and an analogy with weather fronts that invokes the idea of a tumultuous storm ending in cleansing.[1] It was opened to the public in 1994, and the Stormfront.org website was founded in 1995, becoming the first website associated with white supremacy.[2][3] Until this point, attempts at using the Internet for the white pride movement met with limited success,[4] but Stormfront quickly began to become popular with the growth of the Internet at this time, according to owner Don Black.[1][5] A former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and in the 1970s a member of the National Socialist White People's Party (which had changed its name from the American Nazi Party in 1967),[6] Black first received computer training while imprisoned for his role in an abortive 1981 attempt to overthrow the government of Dominica.[7][8]
National attention
The site received considerable attention in the United States, such as in Hate.com, a 2000 CBS/HBO documentary television special which focused on the perceived threat of white nationalist and white supremacist organisations on the Internet.[9] Narrated by Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center, it featured interviews with Black (who hoped it would show sympathy to white grievances) and his son Derek as well as other white nationalist groups and organisations, and was criticised by Black as conflating Stormfront with unrelated websites and individuals.[9] Carol M. Swain, assessing Hate.com and similar broadcasts of the period, found that the commentators "never seriously discuss the issues that have angered white nationalists", noting that Hate.com omitted any coverage of Stormfront's articles on crime, affirmative action and other social issues.[9] She characterised the documentaries' approach as "typical of media policy" in emphasising racial hate against minority groups and avoiding mention of racially motivated attacks on white people, thereby reinforcing "white nationalists' claim of a double standard".[9] Stormfront had previously been accused of citing crime statistics out of context in order to support claims of reverse discrimination in I Found It on the Internet, a 1999 book on internet content by Frances Jacobson Harris.[10]
Controversies
In 2002, search engine Google acted to remove Stormfront.org from their French and German indexes in order to comply with French and German legislation forbidding links to websites which host white supremacist, Holocaust-denying, historical revisionist or similar material.[11] The attempt by the German government to block Stormfront was unsuccessful; although most of the site's content is illegal under German law, it is protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.[12] Stormfront returned to the news in May 2003, when its members targeted an online poll on a racial issue. Fox News Channel host Bill O'Reilly reported on a racially segregated prom being held in Georgia and posted a poll on his website asking his viewers if they would send their own children 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".[13] In a prominent outing of one of its typically pseudonymous members, Doug Hanks withdrew from seeking the Republican Party nomination for one of four seats on the city council of Charlotte, North Carolina in August 2005 after it was revealed that he had posted on Stormfront. Hanks, a writer and actor from Connecticut, had posted more than 4,000 comments over the previous three years, including one in which he wrote, "Let's treat all the Blacks like the rabid beasts they are."[14] Hanks claimed that his postings were intended to gain the trust of Stormfront users in order to help him write a novel, saying "I did what I thought I needed to do to establish myself as a credible white nationalist."[14]
Recently, a large number of Stormfront members, including people who have donated money to the site and have contributed a significant number of WN (white nationalist) posts have had their accounts permanently disabled, leading many to suspect that Don Black and the moderators of Stormfront are operating as a branch of the Southern Poverty Law Center, gathering information about White Patriots under the guise of a racialist web site.
Popularity and later history
In a 2001 USA Today article, journalist Tara McKelvey called Stormfront "the most visited white supremacist site on the net".[15] The number of registered users on the site rose from 5,000 in January 2002 to 52,566 in June 2005,[16] by which year it was the 338th largest Internet forum, received more than 1,500 hits each weekday and ranked in the top one percent of Internet sites in terms of use.[17][18] By June 2008, the site was attracting more than 40,000 unique users each day.[19] Operating the site from its West Palm Beach, Florida headquarters is Black's full-time job, and he is assisted by his son and 40 moderators.[6][19][20] The popularity of the site attracted attention not only from racists, but also from groups such as the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), whose efforts against the site have been hitherto ineffective.[21] The ADL describes Stormfront as having "served as a veritable supermarket of online hate, stocking its shelves with many forms of anti-Semitism and racism".[22]
In 2006, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported a discussion on Stormfront in which white nationalists were encouraged to join the U.S. Military in order to learn the skills necessary for winning a race war.[23][24] The 2008 United States presidential candidacy of African-American Barack Obama was a cause of significant concern for some Stormfront members;[19] the site got 2,000 new members the day after Obama was elected as President, and went temporarily off-line due to the overwhelming amount of activity.[25] Stormfront posters saw Obama as representing a new multicultural era in the United States replacing "white rule", feared that he would support illegal immigration and affirmative action, and would help make white people a minority group.[19] During the primary campaigns, The New York Times mistakenly claimed that Stormfront had donated US$500 to Republican Party candidate Ron Paul; in fact, it was site owner Don Black who had contributed the money to Paul.[26] In an April 2009 shooting, Richard Poplawski, a poster on the site, was charged with ambushing and killing three Pittsburgh Police officers and attempting to kill nine others.[27]
Content
Stormfront is a resource for those courageous men and women fighting to preserve their White Western culture, ideals and freedom of speech and association—a forum for planning strategies and forming political and social groups to ensure victory.
— Stormfront mission statement.[28]
Stormfront is notable for the white supremacist views of its members,[a] a characterization that is contested by Don Black as an inaccurate description; Black believes the term "supremacy" implies a system which "isn't descriptive of what [the members] want".[1] It is also a Neo-Nazi website,[b] on which Nazi mysticism and the personality cult of Adolf Hitler are sustained and Nazi iconography is popular.[29] The Stormfront.org website is organized primarily as a discussion forum with multiple thematic sub-fora including "News", "Ideology and Philosophy" ("Foundations for White Nationalism"), "Culture and Customs", "Theology", "Quotations", "Revisionism", "Science, Technology and Race" ("Genetics, eugenics, racial science and related subjects"), "Privacy", "Self-Defense, Martial Arts, and Preparedness", "Homemaking", "Education and Homeschooling", "Youth", and "Music and Entertainment".[16][19] There are boards for different geographic regions, and a section open to unregistered guests, who are elsewhere unable to post.
Services
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Stormfront.org is comprehensive and frequently updated, hosting files from and links to a number of white nationalist and white racist websites,[3] an online dating service (for "heterosexual White Gentiles only"), and electronic mailing lists that allow the white nationalist community to discuss issues of interest.[21][30][31] It also features a selection of current news reports, an archive of past stories, and a merchandise store featuring literature and music.[28] Stormfront has published stories aimed at children.[29] A 2001 study of recruitment by extremist groups on the Internet noted that Stormfront came close to offering most of the standard services offered by web portals, including an internal search engine, web hosting, and categorized links, and lacking only in an Internet search engine and the provision of free email for its members (though a limited email service was available at the price of US$30 a month).[29]
Design
Black uses the techniques of propaganda to build a story attractive to web surfers. With careful marketing and design, Stormfront.org hides its nature from casual visitors. Prominently featured on the homepage is a Celtic cross surrounded by the words "white pride, world wide." A mission statement praises courage and freedom. According to Stormfront, they discourage racial slurs, and prohibit violent threats and descriptions of anything illegal.[16][29] However, others say that only blatant hate and calls for violence are kept off the opening page.[28][32]
Character
Purpose and appeal
Don Black has long worked to increase the mainstream appeal of white supremacism. His medium is Stormfront.org.[16] Black established the website to heighten awareness of anti-white discrimination and government actions detrimental to white people,[9] and to create a virtual community of white extremists.[19][29][33][1] Black owns the site's servers so he need not depend on website hosting providers.[18]
Black's organization inculcates enough white pride to make "its worldwide aspirations meaningful and socially significant".[28] Stormfront keeps the rhetoric in its forums muted, discourages racial slurs, and prohibits violent threats and descriptions of anything illegal.[16][29] Site moderator Jamie Kelso is "the motivating force behind real community-building among Stormfront members" due to his energy and enthusiasm in organizing offline events.[34] Black's positioning the site as a community with the explicit purpose of "defending the white race" has helped sustain the community over its long lifetime, as it attracts white men who define themselves in opposition to ethnic minorities, particularly Jews.[16]
Stormfront established MartinLutherKing.org to discredit Martin Luther King, Jr. [35] In a 2001 study of white nationalist groups including Stormfront, academics Beverly Ray and George E. Marsh II commented that "Like the Nazis before them, they rely upon a blend of science, ignorance, and mythology to prop up their arguments".[29][36]
Ideology
Stormfront presents itself as engaged in a struggle for unity, identifying culture, speech and free association as its core concerns,[28] though members of Stormfront are especially passionate about racial purity.[34] It promotes a lone wolf mentality, linking to white nationalist theorist Louis Beam's influential work on leaderless resistance and offering a sympathetic assessment of Benjamin Nathaniel Smith, a white supremacist who committed suicide after a racially-motivated killing spree in June 1999.[29] Scholar Violet Jones notes that Stormfront credits its mission to the founding myth of an America "created, built, and ideologically grounded by the descendants of white Europeans."[37] Asked in 2008 by an interviewer for Italian newspaper la Repubblica whether Stormfront was a twenty-first century version of the Ku Klux Klan without the iconography, Black responded affirmatively, though he noted that he would never say so to an American journalist.[38]
References
- ^ a b c d e Swain, Carol M. (March 24, 2003). "Don Black". Contemporary Voices of White Nationalism in America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 153–65. ISBN 0521016932.
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Stormfront has links to many dozens of other white nationalist and white racist websites, and many of these also feed into Stormfront.
- ^ Kaplan, Jeffrey (1998). The Emergence of a Euro-American Radical Right. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. p. 160. ISBN 0813525640.
- ^ Etchingham, Julie (January 12, 2000). "Hate.com expands on the net". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved September 14, 2007.
- ^ a b Schwab Abel, David (February 19, 1998). "The Racist Next Door". New Times.
- ^ Lloyd, Robin (August 8, 1999). "Web Trackers Hunt Racist Groups Online". CNN. Turner Broadcasting System. Retrieved September 14, 2007.
- ^ McKelvey, Tara (August 16, 2001). "Father and Son Team on Hate Site". USA Today. Gannett Company. Retrieved January 29, 2008.
- ^ a b c d e Swain, Carol (2002). The New White Nationalism in America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 230–232. ISBN 0521808863.
- ^ Jacobson Harris, Frances (April 1, 2005). "The Deep End: Content". I Found It on the Internet: Coming of Age Online. Chicago: American Library Association. p. 99. ISBN 0838908985.
- ^ McCullagh, Declan (October 23, 2002). "Google excluding controversial sites". CNet News. Retrieved July 20, 2007.
- ^ Johansen, Bruce E. (May 30, 2004). "The New Terminators: A Guide to the Anti-Treaty Movement". In Johansen, Bruce E. (ed.). Enduring Legacies: Native American Treaties and Contemporary Controversies. New York: Praeger Publishers. p. 323. ISBN 0313321043.
- ^ O'Reilly, Bill (May 8, 2003). "Circling the Wagons in Georgia". Talking Points. Fox News. Retrieved July 20, 2008.
- ^ a b "Internet Postings End Politico's Shot". Columbia Daily Tribune. Associated Press. August 6, 2005. Retrieved March 17, 2009.
- ^ McKelvey, Tara (July 16, 2006). "Father and Son Team on Hate Site". USA Today. Gannett Company. Retrieved December 28, 2008.
- ^ a b c d e f Daniels, Jessie (December 1, 2007). "Race, Civil Rights and Hate Speech in the Digital Era". In Everett, Anna (ed.). Learning Race and Ethnicity: Youth and Digital Media. MIT Press. p. 133. ISBN 0262050919. Retrieved July 19, 2008.
Black has long been advocate for 'mainstreaming' the white supremacist movement, and the Internet is his preferred medium for doing so. His first and primary presence is Stormfront.org
- ^ Jessup, Michael (2007). "The Sword of Truth in a Sea of Lies: The Ideology of Hate". In Robert J. Priest, Alvaro L. Nieves (ed.). This Side of Heaven. Oxford Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press. p. 165. ISBN 019531056X.
- ^ a b Cohen-Almagor, Raphael (November 1, 2005). "Conclusion". The Scope of Tolerance: Studies on the Costs of Free Expression and Freedom of the Press (1st ed.). Routledge. p. 254. ISBN 0415357586. Retrieved July 21, 2008.
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- ^ Phillips, Peter (April 9, 2001). Censored 2001: 25 Years of Censored News and the Top Censored Stories of the Year. New York: Seven Stories Press. p. 133. ISBN 158322064X.
Today, the state is home to several of the most powerful white supremicists in the country, including Stormfront, an Internet-based hate group headquarted in West Palm Beach.
- ^ a b Kaplan, Jeffrey (May 28, 2000). "Black Metal". Encyclopedia of White Power: A Sourcebook on the Radical Racist Right. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press. p. 24. ISBN 0742503402.
- ^ "Don Black: White Pride World Wide". Poisoning the Web: Hatred Online. Anti-Defamation League. Retrieved December 28, 2008.
- ^ Holthouse, David (July 7, 2006). "A Few Bad Men". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved July 20, 2008.
- ^ Kifner, John (July 7, 2006). "Hate Groups Are Infiltrating the Military, Group Asserts". The New York Times. Retrieved July 20, 2008.
- ^ Sullivan, Eileen (November 13, 2008). "Obama threats more than previous presidents-elect". Yahoo News. Yahoo!. Associated Press. Archived from the original on November 14, 2008. Retrieved November 15, 2008.
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- ^ "Poplawski frequented right-wing Web sites". UPI.com. April 5, 2009. Retrieved April 6, 2009.
- ^ a b c d e Bernardi, Daniel (2002). "Cyborgs in Cyberspace". In James Friedman (ed.). Reality Squared. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. p. 163–167. ISBN 0813529891.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Ray, Beverly (2001). "Recruitment by Extremist Groups on the Internet". First Monday. 6 (2). Retrieved December 28, 2008.
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- ^ Kaplan, Jeffrey (February 28, 1999). The Emergence of a Euro-American Radical Right. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. p. 161. ISBN 0813525640.
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Jeffrey Kaplan, for one, describes Black's Web site as 'the cyberspace flagship of the racist right.' Indeed, Stormfront.org is the most popular racist site on the Internet
- ^ a b Tucker, Maria Luisa (June 05, 2007). "A Neo-Nazi Field Trip to the Met". Village Voice. Retrieved December 27, 2008.
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- ^ Jones, Violet (November 28, 2006). "Violence, Discourse and Dixieland: A Critical Reflection on an Incident Involving Violence Against Black Youth". In Rossatto, César; Allen, Ricky. L; Pryun, Mark (ed.). Reinventing Critical Pedagogy: Widening the Circle of Anti-Oppression Education. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. p. 39. ISBN 0742538885.
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Footnotes
- ^a Sources which consider Stormfront a white supremacist website include:
- Schwab Abel, David (February 19–25, 1998). "The Racist Next Door". New Times.
Black's swastika-strewn "Stormfront" -- the only white supremacist Website on the Internet before the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City
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: CS1 maint: date format (link) - Etchingham, Julie (January 12, 2000). "Hate.com expands on the net". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved September 14, 2007.
- Lloyd, Robin (August 12, 1999). "Web trackers hunt racist groups online". CNN. Retrieved September 14, 2007.
- "Hate on the World Wide Web:A Brief Guide to Cyberspace Bigotry". ADL.org. Anti-Defamation League. October 1998. Retrieved January 1, 2009.
- "Jena Rally Sparks White Supremacist Rage, Lynching Threat". Southern Poverty Law Center. September 20, 2007. Retrieved January 29, 2008.
- Ripley, Amanda (March 5, 2005). "The Bench Under Siege". Time Magazine. Retrieved January 29, 2008.
- Scheneider, Keith (March 13, 1995). "Hate Groups Use Tools Of the Electronic Trade". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved January 29, 2001.
- Atkins, Stephen E. (August 30, 2002). Encyclopedia of Modern American Extremists and Extremist Groups. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0313315027. Retrieved July 19, 2008.
In 1995 Black brought up a Web site, Stormfront, which now serves as the primary site for white supremacist Internet communications.
- Mooney, Linda A. (2004). "Race and Ethic Relations". Understanding Social Problems. Thomson Wadsworth. p. 181. ISBN 0534625142.
White supremacist groups such as Stormfront spread their message of racial hate through their Web site.
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Don Black, an ex-Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan and owner of the white supremacist homepage Stormfront (www.stormfront.org)
- Casey, Natasha (February 2006). "'The Best Kept Secret in Retail': Selling Business in Contemporary America". In Negra, Diane (ed.). The Irish in Us: Irishness, Performativity, and Popular Culture. Duke University Press. p. 94. ISBN 0822337401. Retrieved July 19, 2008.
… the inclusion of the Stormfront flag specifically defines its audience as white supremacist.
- Gerstenfeld, Phyllis B. (June 26, 2003). Hate Crimes: Causes, Controls, and Controversies. Sage Publications. p. 227. ISBN 0761928146.
A search for the term 'Stormfront' on the American version of Google results in a list of sites with the white supremacist Web site Stormfront first on the list.
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After his release in 1985, Black launched the first white supremacist Web site. Black's "Stormfront" was one of the largest hate sites on the Internet
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Stormfront is a white supremacist organisation.
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- Schwab Abel, David (February 19–25, 1998). "The Racist Next Door". New Times.
- ^b Sources which consider Stormfront a Neo-Nazi website include:
- Kim, T.K. (2005). "Electronic Storm - Stormfront Grows a Thriving Neo-Nazi Community". Intelligence Report (118). Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved December 30, 2008.
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Stormfront.org, a neo-Nazi's Web site set up in 1995, is considered the first major domestic "hate site" on the World Wide Web because of its depth of content and its presentation style which represented a new period for online right-wing extremism
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Earlier this week, when I entered the search terms "Madoff" and "Jewish" into Google, the top responses included JewishJournal.com and stormfront.org, a neo-Nazi Web site.
- Hildebrand, Joe (January 1, 2008). "RSL slams Australia Day hijack". The Daily Telegraph. News Corporation.
Much of the activity has been co-ordinated through the neo-Nazi website Stormfront, whose Australian arm is moderated by 18-year-old Newcastle resident Rhys McLean.
- Kim, T.K. (2005). "Electronic Storm - Stormfront Grows a Thriving Neo-Nazi Community". Intelligence Report (118). Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved December 30, 2008.
- ^c Sources which identify Stormfront as the Internet's "first hate site" include:
- Levin, Brian (August 21, 2003). "Cyberhate: A Legal and Historical Analysis of Extremists' Use of Computer Networks in America". In Perry, Barbara (ed.). Hate and Bias Crime: A Reader. Routledge. ISBN 0415944082. Retrieved July 21, 2008.
- Ryan, Nick (March 2, 2004). "Thirteen Days". Into a World of Hate: A Journey Among the Extreme Right (1st ed.). Routledge. p. 80. ISBN 041594922X. Retrieved July 21, 2008.
It was Black who would launch Stormfront, the first major extremist hate site.
- Samuels, Shimon (February 6, 1997). "Is the Holocaust unique?". In Rosenbaum, Alan S. (ed.). Is the Holocaust Unique?: Perspectives on Comparative Genocide. Westview Press. p. 218. ISBN 0813336864. Retrieved July 21, 2008.
It was Holocaust denier and Ku Klux Klan leader, Don Black, who had founded Stormfront (the very first Internet hate site, in 1995)
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The first extremist hate site was Stormfront (1995)
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