ThoughtCrime: 04/27/98
VHO Website Censored by German Authorities
On April 27, 1998, Mayor Vandreike of the City of
Frankfurt am Main (Germany), applied for the indexing, i.e. censoring of
the entire Website of Vrij Historisch Onderzoek
(VHO).
The application was filed within the "Bundesprüfstelle
für jugendgefährdende Schriften" (BPjS), the central German authority responsible
for the indexing/censorship procedure. Ute Kortländer of the BPjS sent VHO
a notice on May 12, 1998, notifying them that they have one week to respond
to the censorship application.
The censorship of the VHO Website by the Government
of Germany marks the first time that an entire Web Site has been censored
for historical and scientific writings. The German government has to date
only censored individual pages to which they were ideologically or politically
opposed.
"Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death."
George Orwell
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