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Posted on 09/09/2010 7:35:50 AM PDT by ConservativeChris
"In response to a complaint, Rackspace has shut down the websites of the Dove World Outreach Center, a small 50-member church which has received national and international criticism for a planned book burning of the Quran on the anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. The center 'violated the hate-speech provision of our acceptable-use policy,' explained Rackspace spokesman Dan Goodgame. 'This is not a constitutional issue. This is a contract issue,' said Goodgame, who added he did not know how long it had hosted the church's sites. Not quite the same thing, but would Kurt Westergaard's cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad also violate Rackspace's AUP? How about Christopher Hitchens' Slate articles? Could articles from one-time Rackspace poster child The Onion pass muster?"
Everywhere you look people are exercising their rights, unwisely.
Does Rackspace have any other sites (muslim, perhaps) that are calling for violent response to this protest?
Rackspace arguably is within the letter and spirit of its use policy. That said, can we now track down every host that services Koran sites for the same reason?
This Preacher is exposing the weakness of our Leadership in the War. Good Lord. If these people had been in charge we would be speaking Japanese.
Not sure, Need help, how do I check what sites they are hosting?
Given the extremely high profile hubbub, I’m surprised to see it took this long before someone got to their ISP. However ISPs as private entities can enforce as strict or lax a standard on content as they wish.
Public dissent is not hate speech. Religious freedom is not hate speech. Unless it comes from muslims.
Note that the article starts off by stating this was done in response to a complaint. By what person, agency or organization??? THAT might be a huge question to follow up. . . .
The original article links to CNN. I didn’t add that link cuz I think we’re not allowed (I’ve lost the exact list).
One persons hate-speech is another persons truth.
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Don’t get me wrong I think this was/is a publicity stunt, from a Jim Baker wannabe. But he is finding out that things have changed, the enemy is within the gates.
Come on Freeper techies - help us out!
Does this mean a site cannot establish, require agreement with, and enforce a porn-free policy if the porn in question is constitutionally permissible?
Truth IS “hate speech”.
The left’s ideology is based on the lies of their ideological father,
so any truth telling IS “offensive” to them.
Infact, telling the truth can be regarded as hate speech. This is why truth is not an absolute defense.
Not that I entirely trust Wiki-anything but this mentions some of their worldwide corporate customers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rackspace
The idea of curtailing our 1st amendment rights under the auspices of “hate speech” is wearing thin. It’s absurd, in fact. The Founders would be arrested for hate speech today and we’d all be British citizens.
This suddenly becomes an issue when some nanny-state Nancy decides to “take a stand” against “hate” and decides to write a letter to the company because this church disagrees with his world view.
Granted, the church signed a contract with a thin-skinned hosting service whose owners lack the manhood to take a stand against this litigious streak that pervades our culture, so it does become a contractual issue.
The church needs to find web hosting space elsewhere, or host their own. They could do it with an old laptop and DSL.
Constitution 101 - To restrict speech on a private site is fine. For the government to do so is not.
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Rackspace is huge. There are over one million sites, many of them ones we agree with.