Re: (en) Haider's website

[Kevin Robert Dean <qualiall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Reminds me of something King George the Second did with his web page...only
the opposite...

If you go to www.bushsucks.com or www.bushblows.com it redirects you to the
Official GW Bush site...I think there were a couple others...I know you can
find more info about it at http://www.bushsuckz.com

Also for fun-- check out http://www.ms-monopoly.com


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> From: Michael Pugliese <debsian@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>> 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.
>>
>> # 30 #
>>
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