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Google/Blogger refuses to ban Racist Blog

by Open-Publishing - Thursday 23 August 2007
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Edito Internet Discriminations-Minorit. France

By Rory Winter

From its title, Le Blog du Cochon Hallal, is clearly meant as a calculated insult against Muslims. If it had been called Kosher Pigs there would have been a tremendous outcry from the international Jewish community and Blogger would have been forced to close it down without further ado.

But Google/Blogger’s attitude appears to be totally cynical and tailored simply to market forces. knowing that the Muslim community is incapable of organizing the kind of opposition that Jewry can it continues to allow this blog the freedom to spread its despicable poison across the Planet.

Such blogs are in four-square contravention of Blogger’s own Contents Policy:

"HATEFUL CONTENT: Users may not publish material that promotes hate toward groups based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status and sexual orientation/gender identity."

The Blog describes itself as "satirical" and "irrelevant". What is amusing about insulting another’s faith or beliefs in this way? Far from being either of the things it claims this blog is very much an incitement of racial hatred.

Apart from its overtly racist nature such a blog is likely to contravene the European Convention on Human Rights. But that doesn’t seem to worry Blogger who, though the blog flies in the face of its own terms, allows it to continue along with just a health warning.

By doing so, Blogger perpetuates the cynicism of capitalist business organisations which will quite happily endorse fascist movements if they think there’s some profit in doing so. Probably the worst example of this were the capitalists who backed Adolf Hitler. Perhaps, being a North American outfit, Blogger remains ignorant of that historic antecedent.

I have already heard some who call themselves Socialists tell me that no matter how revolting such blogs are and despite the fact that they break the host’s rule that they should be allowed the freedom to spew their poison. I fundamentally disagree.

These blogs are like a virus and should be treated as such. When Socialists and libertarians support their existence on the spurious dogma of a free-for-all then they must expect what will inevitably follow. Fascists and racists are not so much birds of prey but scavengers who take advantage of the freedoms a liberal society might allow them. If they are protected by law they take that as a sign that they are free to do as they will.

And that usually means picking on minority groups like western Muslims from which they are guaranteed to make political capital. This is the situation that prevails in countries like Britain, France, Holland, Canada, Australia and the USA where fascists are allowed so much freedom that even apparently more respectable mainstream politicians now play the race card.

Neither fascism or racism should be tolerated. And by allowing scum the freedom to publish, both Blogger and Google put themselves among the lowest and most vile company of the human species.

Complaints to Blogger about Les Cochons should be made at this link:

http://help.blogger.com/?page=troub...

http://tinyurl.com/3bvafg

Forum posts

  • Huh ? This blog ? Racist ? This is ridiculous ! Venceremos should learn some french : this blog is pure french voltairian tradition, satyrical and irreverant. At least, read Voltaire...

    • And... why does this english (?) want to ban a french site ? He should use more often Google, he would find real sites of hatred in english.

    • Oh yes, the racist wolf hides behind satire but it is clear from the title, which is meant as a calculated insult, that it is meant to incite hatred towards Islam. If it had been called Kosher Pigs you can be sure that the international Jewish community would have put so much pressure on Google that it would have been shut down in just days!

    • We are all in the European Union if you hadn’t noticed, mon vieux. Neither the l;anguage or the nationality is of any significance. Both fascism and racism are an international disease. So, please, less chauvinism s’il vous plait, ok?

    • I am really horrified by the way net readers seem prepared to accept that blogs like these, pretending to be ’satirical’ and ’irreverent’ are being allowed to get away with what is clearly racist and an incitement to racist intolerance.

      As I have said it is nothing to do with it being French. In fact, there is an international edition in English showing how well these people are organised.

      I know there are equally vile blogs in English. Chance had it that I discovered this one. I don’t go around the net looking for this kind of poison. If the lack of interest shown by Bellaciao readers is anything to go by then I am not surprised that Google/Blogger continues with its double-standards, allowing racism the freedom to publish while, in particular, censoring libertarian videos on You Tube and Google.

    • Venceremos should learn some french

      Venceremos is right, this blog is racist...

      and i’m french...

      TM

    • As the great Voltaire himself wrote: Ecrasons l’infâme! And that means all religions, opium of the people. And that includes islam.

    • He’s not English, he’s Scottish. The Auld Alliance appears to be readily soluble in Arab oil.

    • "He’s not English, he’s Scottish. The Auld Alliance appears to be readily soluble in Arab oil."

      Oh, pas du tout! The Auld Alliance lives and your analogy is a confused one. It is the USUK which has been after Arab oil for the last century. The French government has been clever enough not to take orders from Washington, DC unlike the imbeciles in London.

      Long live the Auld Alliance!

  • First of all, the cultural relativism is a fallacy.

    A. Double standards?

    For example, you try to promote an equivalence between two different religions (they are different because of the differencies in history, content, dogma, practice, politics, etc.). Islam is not an abstract idea based upon the right to believe in, something without content nor consequences.

    B. Is it really a religion ?

    Unless you want to bound islam to some rites and celebrations common to all the people (harvest, marriage, funerals, birth, pilgrimage, etc.), the islam is a bit more than just a celebration. It’s a totalitarian political ideology with rigid rules and practice of institutional violence.

    B. Hallal vs. Kosher.

    The fact is the entire world has no dramatic problems with jewish religion. But we all are experiencing big problems with islam, aren’t we? Don’t say it’s due to a couple of bad guys, the "therrorists". The problems with islam is how the islamic world react on the modernity.

  • Google is a Zionist/CIA Front. How do think Brinn and Page got their seed money? Don’t trust anything or anyone on the internet. Do you think the CIA could pass up a chance to let people literally spy on themselves. Short of implanting a brain recorder in your head the internet is the greatest and easiest way for the ruling class to create a dossier on anybody who uses the internet. Don’t think for a moment that the ubiquitous Google was left out of their loop.

    Yes the internet is a great tool for independent and dissenting opinions, and I am sure the CIA has weighed the cost/benefits of this means of communication. Google subtley censors the internet, but not so much as to raise ovrwhelming suspicion. Then the big corporate internet backbones get the information that google misses.

  • Honestly Rory... Wrong battle, here. It’s remarkable to fight for great causes, but here, you’re like chasing ants instead of elephants. Irrelevant. I knew the Cochons, and really, you shouldn’t take what seems to be humour for an insult to Muslims.
    You’ve been mistaken, buddy. How sad for them.