rhymes with yikes

Okay, so I believe in free-speech 100%, and actually consider myself a bit of an absolutist on the topic. But of course there’s nothing in the First Amendment that means private companies like blogspot have to host shit like this. I won’t quote from it, but I guess I’d call it a pro-Holocaust site — I found it accidentally, while randomly pressing the “next blog” button on Blogspot blogs.

Anyway, I sent a message to Blogger pointing out the site and noting that their terms of service prohibits posting content that is “hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable.” This was their response:

Date: 11/03/2004 14:52:31 -0800
From: “Blogger Support”
To: “Derek Rose {U 225777}”
Subject: Re: term of service violation- hate speech
Hello,

Thank you for your note. Blogger is a provider of content creation tools, not a mediator of that content. We allow our users to create blogs, but we don’t make any claims about the content of these pages. In cases where a contact email address is listed on the page, we recommend working directly with the author to have this information removed or changed.

-Blogger Support

I wonder – did they even look at the site?? Anyway, I forwarded the message to webmaster[at]adl.org … other than that, I wash my hands of it.
UPDATE 12/1/04: The site has been deleted.