Fw: (en) Haider's website

[Michael Pugliese <debsian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Viviane Lerner <vlerner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <a-infos-d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2000 6:15 PM
Subject: (en) Haider's website


> FYI
> I just want to let you know about the exchange I had about Haider's web
site
> [as published in French on A-Infos].
> And here is the English language web site for the Austrian Freedom Party
> http://194.96.203.5/englisch/welcome.html
> Viviane
> =========
> Viviane Lerner wrote:
> > Hello,
> > My attention was brought onto the website of Haider [the right-wing
> > character that just got into the Austrian government] and his friends.
If
> > you speak German [I don't, so I'm relying on a French  report], you may
> wish
> > to visit
> > http://www.fpo.at
> ---------------------------------
>
> The problem is that this isn't the website of Haider, but a fake.
> Haider's site is at  http://www.fpoe.at .
>
>
> Reference:
> ==========
>
> Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 06:19:45 -0400
> From: RTMark Announcements <announce0062@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Happy GrayDay.org
>
>
> October 1, 1999
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (contact mailto:copyright@xxxxxxxxxx)
>
> WHICH IS WHICH? ON THE INTERNET, YOU NEVER CAN TELL
>
> Every day, thousands of people looking for the Internet sites of the
ultra-
> right party in Austria (http://www.fpo.at), a Liberal candidate in
Australia
> (http://www.realjeff.com), the Mayor of New York (http://yesrudy.com), and
a
> copyright lobbying group (http://www.grayday.org) end up very confused.
>
> Each of the sites listed above is a "rogue"--a nearly identical version of
a
> "real" site (http://www.fpoe.at, http://www.jeff.com.au,
> http://www.rudyyes.com, and http://www.greyday.org, respectively), altered
> to
> make a political point. The trend may have begun with the
http://yesrudy.com
> site, which resembles http://rudyes.com so closely that an aide with the
> opposing campaign admitted in the New York Times to being misled
> (see http://rtmark.com/pressyrd.html and http://rtmark.com/bush.html).
>
> WWW.FPO.AT or www.fpoe.at? (contact unknown / mailto:joerg.haider@xxxxxxx)
>
> Earlier this week, Austria's third-largest party, which was formed from
the
> leftovers of the Nazi party, was shocked and distressed to find itself
> extensively and subtly mocked.
>
> The official website of the Freiheitlichen Partei Oesterreichs, which is
> considered very likely to become part of Austria's government after this
> Sunday's closely-watched elections, is http://www.fpoe.at/.
> http://www.fpo.at
> takes advantage of the fact that in German, the letter "o" with an umlaut
> can
> be written either as "o" or "oe"; the "FPO" site looks identical to the
> official FPOe site, but links directly to more overtly Nazi sites,
replaces
> words like "information" with "propaganda," and makes use of many other
> instructive replacements.
>
> Like George W. Bush with GWBush.com (see http://rtmark.com/bush.html), the
> FPOe is using every legal tactic to shut down the rogue site, including a
> U.S.
> copyright suit (the "FPO"'s service provider is American) and appeals to
the
> Austrian Minister of the Interior. But like Bush with the original
> GWBush.com
> site, the FPOe has so far been unable to stop this attack on its ideas and
> intentions.
>
> German-language press about the "FPO" site, from earlier this week, is at
> http://futurezone.orf.at/futurezone.orf?read=detail&id=4737&tmp=61046 and
>
http://www.politik-digital.de/europa/laender/oesterreich/innenpolitik/fake.s
> html.
>
> WWW.REALJEFF.COM or www.jeff.com.au? (contact mailto:realjeff99@xxxxxxxxx
/
>       http://www.liberal.org.au/cgi-bin/mail.cgi)
>
> Australian Liberal candidate Jeff Kennett joins the FPOe and Presidential
> hopeful George W. Bush in attempting to shut down Internet opposition--in
> Kennett's case, http://www.realjeff.com, which mocks Kennett's
> http://www.jeff.com.au.
>
> But Kennett's tactics are quieter than those of the FPOe and Bush.
Addr.com
> (mailto:info@xxxxxxxx), until three weeks ago the Internet provider of
> http://www.realjeff.com, suddenly suspended its hosting without
explanation,
> and has ignored repeated inquiries regarding the matter. Also, Kennett's
> http://www.jeff.com.au now merely defaults to the Liberal Party website,
as
> if to avoid comparison.
>
> WWW.GRAYDAY.ORG or www.greyday.org? (contact mailto:press@xxxxxxxxxxx /
>       mailto:press@xxxxxxxxxxx)
>
> Today, many Internet visitors will visit http://www.grayday.org hoping to
> learn more about "GreyDay," an annual call for stricter copyright laws for
> the Web. Last year, the October 1 event was written about in the New York
> Times, Wired News and the Village Voice.
>
> But whereas http://www.greyday.org calls for more copyright protection,
> http://www.grayday.org urges visitors to keep the Internet "free from
phony
> copyright laws." Its authors, a team of Silicon Valley software
programmers
> and graphic designers who call themselves Tell-all Computer Programmers &
> Internet Professionals (TCP/IP), claim to represent "the millions of
people
> who have benefited and will continue to benefit from the free exchange of
> ideas, the hallmark of the Internet."
>
> There are many other subtle differences between the two sites. Whereas
> GreyDay.org urges Internet users to imagine "what if" copyright
infringement
> leads to a lack of creativity on the Web, the spoof site implores visitors
> to
> imagine "what if there was no WWW... no Internet."
>
> According to TCP/IP spokesperson Cecil Park, "The call for more copyright
> laws
> on the Web is especially absurd considering the Web itself was made
possible
> by the copyright-free distribution of the first Web browser [Mosaic] and
the
> most popular Web server software [Apache]."
>
> (The name TCP/IP is a pointed insiders' joke. It stands not only for
> "Tell-all
> Computer Programmers & Internet Professionals," but for "Transmission
> Control
> Protocol / Internet Protocol," the software at the heart of the Internet
> that
> was given away without copyright in 1981 by programmers at the U.S.
> Government's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.)
>
>
> RTMark (http://rtmark.com) uses its limited liability as a corporation
> to sponsor the sabotage of mass-produced products, and to discuss
corporate
> abuses of the political process. One of RTMark's ultimate aims is to
> eliminate the principle of limited liability.
>
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>
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