From: "Declan B. McCullagh" <declan+@CMU.EDU>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 15:06:44 +0800
To: EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>
Subject: Re: Rabbi Hier Testimony
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Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 23-Apr-96 Rabbi Hier Testimony by
"E. ALLEN SMITH"@ocelot. 
>         People might want to take a look at Rabbi Hier (the founder of the
> Weisental Center)'s statements on "hate groups" and the Internet. While he
> (unlike Biden) does recognize that outlawing bomb-making information would be
> unconstitutional, he doesn't appear to approve of anonymnity on the Internet
> (nor, depending on how one interprets his statements, of encrypted
> communications without GAK). The first is to his (and the Weisenthal
Center's)


The Simon Wiesenthal Center and the ADL would love to outlaw anonymity
on the Net. Here's some info on their attempts to restrict online speech:

CDT report on Hier's testimony at Senate hearing last May:
  http://www.cdt.org/publications/pp130512.html
ACLU's *detailed* reporting on SWC's longtime net-censorship attempts:
   http://fight-censorship.dementia.org/dl?num=618
ADL decries "web of hate":
  http://fight-censorship.dementia.org/dl?num=1509
ADL research analyst's personal position on Internet hate speech:
  http://fight-censorship.dementia.org/dl?num=1600
ADL claims information is seductive, needs to be censored: 
  http://fight-censorship.dementia.org/dl?num=1727
IHR (biased) reporting on SWC/ADL net-censorship attempts:
   http://fight-censorship.dementia.org/dl?num=628
How ADL tries to recruit hackers to sabotage enemies' computers:
   http://fight-censorship.dementia.org/dl?num=856
SWC tries to muzzle critics in Argentina, Canada:   
   http://fight-censorship.dementia.org/dl?num=618
SWC exaggerates "hate speech" threat for funding and self-perpetuation:
   http://fight-censorship.dementia.org/dl?num=1311
   http://fight-censorship.dementia.org/dl?num=582
      
The EF Canada web pages also detail how the SWC has been trying to get
the Canadian equivalent of the FCC to regulate the Internet. The ACLU
reports at the URL above how the SWC has tried the same trick here in
the U.S.

-Declan