Caught in the deadly web of the internet by Robert Fisk, Independent (Apr 21) "Any political filth or personal libel can be hurled at the innocent "
Another story of a person being hurt by information found on the Internet.
"Taner Akcam is the distinguished Turkish scholar at the University of Minnesota who, with immense courage, proved the facts of the Armenian genocide - the deliberate mass murder of up to a million and a half Armenians by the Ottoman Turkish authorities in 1915 - from Turkish documents and archives. His book A Shameful Act was published to great critical acclaim in Britain and the United States."
But there's an online campaign to discredit him being done through misinformation at Wikipedia and other sites, that US and Canadian immigration authorities are reading and believing.
Fisk writes, "So let's get this clear. US and Canadian officials now appear to be detaining the innocent on the grounds of hate postings on the internet. And it is the innocent - guilty until proved otherwise, I suppose - who must now pay lawyers to protect them from Homeland Security and the internet. But as Akcam says, there is nothing he can do."
Just for the record - I found this story by following a lead at Furl.net to a member who seemed to have similar interests to mine - and it worked.
Posted by Gwen at April 29, 2007 01:59 PM