"Robert A. Costner"
I am a German patriot who wants to publish my ideas without of fear of the German goverment. But my concern is that the U. S. ISP I use can hand over my subscriber infoation and logs to the German goverment. Does anyone know a U. S. ISP who does not censor hate speech and who has a _known_ strong privacy policy? By the way, is hate speech protected in United States?
Hate speech is constitutionally protected in the US. That doesn't mean you can do it from any particular ISP or in someone's living room. You seem to have found protected email, you should therefore know who to post to usenet. There are dozens of places you can get free web sites from, though I don't know about their hate speech policies.
I know Geocities, Tripod, Angelfire and few others who provide free web hosting. All these ISPs have policies prohibiting political and sexually explicitly speech on the ground of its content. That's obviously not a First Amendment issue involved.
I'd be curious to know of Geocities, Tripod, et all - where they have kicked people off or not for hate speech.
Yes. They have done so. Geocities is very censorious even regarding politically correct speech such as gay advoccy and Tripod has kickeda homosexual site of for violation of a clause in the agreement concerning "adult" content. I am searching for a commercial ISP who will not censor political speech and who will respect one's privacy. I am not a nazi sympathizer, but I don't believe in the holocaust and want to say it loud. In Germany and in other countries where the Jews have succeeded in creating "hate laws" you can get four years in jail for refusing to believe in the holocaust. I would like to set up a homepage with some "illegal" [within Germany only] content that would not be shut down by the German goverment. I am working on a book exposing the holocaust story that would *surely* be banned in my own "democratic" country. The unfortunate not-so-well-known fact about Germany is that we do not have freedom of speech. I often wonder why Amnesty International did not protest the imprisonment of Gary Lauck who was denied basic due process and human rights, including freedom of speech and association, by a kangoro court. [This message is cross-posted to de.soc.zensur and de.soc.politik to upset my dictatorial goverment].