Fasthosts apparently edited didn’t edit Murrays site
UPDATE: No they didn’t, it was an associate of Murray’s trying to keep the site up. See comments for full story.
Holy mother of God, the Fasthost’s censorship debacle worsens:
On my article about Alisher Usmanov which so incensed his lawyers Schillings, let me ask this question. Has anybody seen an argument posted or published from any credible source to argue that what I say about Usmanov is untrue?
I ask the question because one of the edits to this log my webhost made at Schillings’ behest was to say that my claim was “regarded as false by many people”. I have altered that edit, because there is no justification for such a claim. I have yet to see evidence of anybody, not one solitary person, arguing that I am wrong about Usmanov, other than his lawyers. Who are these “Many people”, and why are they peculiarly silent?
I am very sympathetic to my webhost having to change things for Schillings, but not to the extent of altering things to become defamatory of me!!!
Posted by craig on 3:14 PM 14/09/07 under Uzbekistan
Winston Smith is alive and well and living in Gloucester. Utterly irresponsible.
No, Fasthosts didn’t edit Craig’s post. As the intermediary (Craig’s site was hosted gratis on one of my dedicated servers at Fasthosts), I was trying to pre-empt a further issue, and made a misread correction. This was explained to Craig by email, and an apology given. Yes there are issues of censorship and restricted freedom of speech, but this instance is not one of them. In fact, if anyone had read the comments on the post in question, they would have seen my explanation/apology.
And believe me, selective editing is far too sophisticated for Fasthosts, they’d have just dropped the site.
The confusion lies in the fact that I hosted Craig’s site on my web-server, but I was more of a supporter, associate and webmaster. However, as I was hosting the site, direct webhost also accurate. Fasthosts were merely supplying dedicated servers to me.
Hi Clive, thanks for clearing that up. I don’t have a high opinion of Fast Hosts and would put nothing that is bad beyond their capabilities, but I did leap to a conclusion.
Anyway, your actions as an apparent friend of Craig Murray seem perfectly well intentioned and certainly don’t represent a hideous threat to our liberty!
As for Fast Hosts deciding for themselves that the site was defamatory and then proudly telling the papers, that simply shows up their respect for the wishes of their customers and for the needs of a healthy society.
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