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From: "William S. Purdy" <william.purdy@private>
To: "Declan McCullagh" <declan@private>
Subject: Fw: articles
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:41:14 -0500
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<http://www.nashvillescene.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?story=This_Week:Columns:Desperately_Seeking_the_News>http://www.nashvillescene.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?story=This_Week:Columns:Desperately_Seeking_the_News
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Well, not just yet. The Tennessean has just been punked by either a Bronx
tech firm or a succinctly titled Web site called abortionismurder.org.
Here's what's going on: The correct Web address for the city's dominant
daily paper is tennessean.com. A Bronx firm has registered the domain name
thetennessean.com, however, an address that takes unsuspecting readers to
abortionismurder.org. There, the reader can download catchy anti-abortion
songs with titles like "I Can't Wait to See Your Face" and "Precious
Child." (Music Row, are you listening?) In addition, the reader, who was
originally just trying to get the day's news, can also learn why abortion
is murder even in the case of rape and incest and why birth control is dead
wrong. (The site explains, with an obvious knack for succinctness, that
"the pill kills.")
[...]
Still, for the anti-abortion movement, taking domain names that sound like
established press outlets and redirecting them to gruesome sites is the
ultimate way to target the so-called liberal media.
William Purdy, another anti-abortion activist living in St. Paul, has
bought more than two dozen Internet domain names that riff off those from
established news outlets like the Chicago Tribune and Star Tribune. A
retired railroad engineer, Purdy has been told by the courts to stop it,
but he keeps filing appeals. The Washington Post is quite understandably
suing him for using the domain name thewashingtonpostjesus.com, which
directs people to a site that features a bloody aborted fetus. He explains
his motives for targeting the Post this way: "They are pro-abortion. Warren
Buffett, who is pro-choice, sits on their board, and under his direction
the Post is extremely pro-abortion in their editorial position, and they
are biased toward pro-abortion in their news reporting. They are pro-death,
and that's why I targeted them."
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