SMITH'S REPORT
 
 
 
 
 
America's Only Monthly
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- Number 55 -
June 1998

Contents

• CODOH's Growing Role in Battle for Cyber High Ground May soon prove pivotal
• Bankruptcy and "Good Causes"
• Of Dracula and Chia Pets
• The Lycos Ministry of Truth
• and more!

and now... our front page!

CODOH's GROWING ROLE IN BATTLE FOR CYBER HIGH GROUND MAY SOON PROVE PIVOTAL

    In Frankfurt am Main, Germany, authorities move to ban a German-language revisionist site on the World Wide Web that features many articles by such CODOH writers as Bradley Smith and Richard Widmann.

    In London, England revisionist historian David Irving posts to his Website the first dispatch from the "liberated" Auschwitz-it appeared in Pravda in 1945--as translated and with commentary by CODOH-affiliated scholar Samuel Crowell.

    In Toronto, Canada Ernst Zündel battles an attempt by the Canadian Human Rights Commission to close down the Zündelsite on the World Wide Web, despite the fact that it is owned and operated not by Zuendel in Canada, but by Ingrid Rimland in the United States. The Zuendelsite is not only linked, i.e. directly accessible over the Internet, to CODOHWeb, but CODOHWeb continues to "mirror," or duplicate, the bulk of the contents of the Zündelsite for readier access in places, such as Germany, where accessing the Zündelsite is difficult or illegal. In Australia, the Website of the revisionist Adelaide Institute, also linked to CODOHWeb, is embroiled in censorship proceedings brought, at the behest of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, before something called the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission. Strange world-brave, new world-where muzzling those who attempt to discover the historical truth about the Holocaust story and expose the slander that so much of it is, is called "human rights"!

    SR has reported often on the growing importance of the Internet, and in particular the World Wide Web, in the three years since CODOH launched CODOHWeb, its own site on the WWW. CODOHWeb, programmed by able and dedicated volunteers, offers literally hundreds of articles, indeed entire books, illustrated with graphics ranging from cartoons, logos and diagrams to photographs of historical evidence and original documents-accessible to anyone linked to the Internet anywhere on earth. SR has filled many columns with the specifics of the wealth of revisionist material available on CODOHWeb, and has frequently reported on the achievements by and the threats to individual revisionist Websites elsewhere.

    This update on CODOHWeb and Internet revisionism deals with how CODOH contributors are helping shape other revisionist Websites, and, more significantly, the potential importance of CODOHWeb at a time of growing threat to Internet freedom abroad.

    The promise of the Internet, including above all the World Wide Web, which enables the display, the transmission, and the storage of large quantities of text and images, has been realized. The Web has become a prime medium for disseminating the evidence which illustrates the numerous historical fallacies and falsehoods that surround and support the Holocaust story. This is above all true in countries that couple the latest in technology with the primitive desire to censor and control free expression: Germany, France, Canada, Australia, and other outposts of up-to-date obscurantism. In these countries and others, several of

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