Left-Extremist Endeavours

Dissemination of content
forbidden by law
not all of the right-wing extremists are connected to the Internet.
Homepages of the skinhead scene, in particular, offer legally
banned insignia and emblems and hate-mongering texts and,
above all, unlawful music recordings in MP3 format 99) . This
software enables the Internet user to download such music to his
computer, to copy it on his own CDs and to disseminate it. The
intention is to bring right-extremist, and often hate-mongering,
ideas to younger people interested in technology and fond of
music.
Use of U.S. Web hosts On account of the growing use of Internet service providers in the
U.S. for the installation of homepages, and on account of coverup
of the operators’ identity, for instance by employing
anonymous remailers, many of these users felt safe from criminal
prosecution and increasingly gave up their restraint as regards
entry of unlawful content on the Internet.
Thus the homepage of the former right-extremist mailbox network
"Thule-Netz" (cf. sub-section 3.3 below), provides its own
list of "unlawful content" from which hate-mongering texts can be
retrieved. In addition the Thule homepage has since May included
an appeal to attend "Colour balls for nationalists. Paramilitary
training offered quite legally", pointing out that ’colour
ball’ clubs, by providing contacts with foreigners, offered the
opportunity for "keeping the enemy in view" and for training "with
the living object".
"Black Lists" and calls for
the murder of political
opponents
Successful BfV action to
identify anonymous
homepage operators
For some time now, anonymous Internet sites present an increasing
number of "black lists" or "hate sites" on which the
names of political opponents and of other "disagreeable persons"
are given and their addresses and telephone numbers published.
In this context, the operators encourage use of violence often
explicitly or at least implicitly.
In mid-1999, the Internet for the first time disseminated two
specific appeals to murder a member of the left-wing spectrum,
for a head money of 10,000 DM each. Responsibility for this lay
with the operator of an anonymous homepage entitled "Davids
Kampftruppe" ("David’s Combat Force"); within a short time, the
Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV - Federal Office for the
Protection of the Constitution) succeeded in identifying the operator.
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