Google Censors Revisionist Videos

For Immediate Release
Contact: Michael A. Hoffman II (click on "View my complete profile" at left for e-mail address)

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA, February 22, 2006 -- Two days after dissident historian David Irving was sentenced to three years imprisonment in Austria, Google Video removed two of revisionist Michael A. Hoffman II's three videos from its free video online website (http://video.google.com).

Hoffman received the following e-mail from Google: Google has been notified that your videos violate our Program Policies. The titles of the videos are listed at the end of this message. According to our policy, we are removing the following videos:
World War Two Revisionist Charles Provan [and] Deborah Lipstadt, "Amalek" and David Irving. To review our Program Policies please visit: http://video.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=27737&topic=1490


Hoffman's videos passed Google's review process and were approved for broadcast by Google last January. The finding of a "violation" almost a month later, can only be due to behind-the-scenes pressure that was exerted on Google.

Hoffman's video, which consists of a speech about Lipstadt introduced by David Irving, had been broadcast on Google since January 24, 2006 with, according to Google, 1708 "page views" in that time.

Writing on January 27, three days after the video debuted, Deborah Lipstadt lost no time in attacking it in her blog: "While I am generally reluctant to send people to antisemitic sites [why increase the traffic to these purveyors of hate?], I was recently alerted to a video from David Irving's Real History conference in which Michael Hoffman II, someone well known to those who are aware of the cohort of racists, antisemites, and deniers, engages in a virulent attack on me."
http://lipstadt.blogspot.com/2006/01/revealing-and-revolting-video-attack.html

In her blog, she carefully skirts the issue of Amalek, while making it seem as though Hoffman accuses her of hiring hit men to get Irving. What Hoffman analyzed in his speech was the assassination chic that runs the gamut from the dehumanization of Irving as an "Amalek," to the perverse celebration of the state terror that Israelis perpetrate with their assassinations of "suspect" Palestinians who are also labeled "Amalek," and which contributes to an atmosphere of hatred and intimidation.

Hoffman's video of an interview with Charles D. Provan, "World War Two Revisionist Charles Provan" was also removed by Google, again for failing to "comply with our guidelines." The Provan video had been on Google Video the longest of Hoffman's three videos-- since Jan. 19--registering 1668 "page views" in that time.


Hoffman states, "There is nothing that can be construed as illegal or 'hateful' in the interview with Provan, who believes in the Nazi gas chambers." However, Provan also believes that the execution gas chambers were operated in certain cases by Judaic collaborators. "I am not certain if Provan's video was censored by Google for that reason, or in order to muddy the waters by distracting attention away from the censorship of the video of my Lipstadt speech," Hoffman added.

Another video, "The Judaic Role in the Black Slave Trade" a speech by Prof. Tony Martin with an introduction by Hoffman, remains online at Google, as of this writing. Viewers who wish to see it before it too is censored by Google, can access it here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3435039175602962781

Dr. Martin's speech has had 1699 page views since it was first broadcast on Google Video on January 21, 2006.

Hoffman observed, "Goggle prides itself on being at the cutting edge of Internet freedom, yet in the case of the censorship of two of my three Google videos, it has shown itself to be just as beholden to the fears, prejudices and superstitions of religious fanatics as any of the traditional print media. There is no nudity, pornography, racial invective or copyright violations in my videos.

"These videos are intellectual and ideological. They constitute a protest against racism and they contain radical critique, suppressed information and a unique perspective capable of inspiring original thinking and new approaches to perennial human issues. Google approved them a month ago. The grounds for removing them now ican only be a result of dictates from self-appointed thought police to which Google submitted.

"Google is supposed to be dedicated to providing access to the whole spectrum of human knowledge and inquiry. But with their self-censorship of the Lipstadt and Provan videos, they demonstrate to the world that Google is not an information provider but an information gatekeeper, similar to the tired, discredited model perpetuated by the old media," Hoffman concluded.

Letters and faxes concerning Google's censorship may be addressed as follows:

Dr. Eric Schmidt, CEO
Google, Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043

Fax: Attention Dr. Eric Schmidt, CEO (650) 963-3299