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Dove World Outreach Center church pastor Terry Jones announces the burning of the Korans will continue as planned during a news conference in Gainesville, Florida September 8, 2010.
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Thu Sep 9, 2010 5:06pm EDT
MIAMI (Reuters) - The obscure Christian pastor who plans to mark the ninth anniversary of September 11 attacks by burning copies of the Koran has had his website pulled from the Internet, the hosting company said on Thursday.
Dan Goodgame, a spokesman for popular web host Rackspace Hosting, said two websites operated by the Dove World Outreach Center, the tiny Gainesville, Florida church run by pastor Terry Jones, were shut down late on Wednesday.
Jones, 58, has generated international attention and has been widely condemned for arguing that as an American Christian he has a right to burn Islam's holy book because "it's full of lies."
One of two websites, used to drum up publicity ahead of Jones's planned Koran book-burning on Saturday, used the domain name "Islam is of the Devil."
Goodgame said Dove World Outreach Center had violated "hate speech" provisions of its contract with Rackspace.
"What we did was to terminate them as a Rackspace customer because they had violated the contract," Goodgame said.
He said the move had been requested by a complaint about the content posted by Dove World Outreach Center, but declined to say from where it had come.
He said executives at Rackspace, which has more than 100,000 business customers in 140 countries, were unaware that Dove World Outreach Center was even a customer of theirs until they got the complaint several days ago.
"We looked into it and made a determination that the two sites were in violation of the hate-speech provisions of our acceptable-use policy," Goodgame said.
"We're not trying to restrict anyone's free speech rights We just feel that as a business we have the right to set rules," he said.
(Reporting by Tom Brown; Editing by Pascal Fletcher)
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Sep 09, 2010 8:33pm EDT
Terry Jones is a demagogue who created this fuss to garner donations for his failing church. I’m glad the host company pulled his sites. Free speech is fine, the company though, doesn’t have to be a part of it!
Voxhumana
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Sep 09, 2010 11:18pm EDT
There is enough of his kind of garbage on the Internet. One less is a start. They should all be shut down.
lazerous200
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Sep 09, 2010 11:59pm EDT
Terry Jones should sue the host company for breaking the first amendment. The company has no right to pull the plug on Terry Jones who is acting completely within the law. This company’s rules are in direct violation of the US Constitution. Not to mention, the company is directly undermining the US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan who are there to defend freedom of speech and democracy.
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Sep 10, 2010 2:24am EDT
TruthandLiberty: You apparently don’t understand what the First Amendment protects. The Constitution does not protect hate speech any more than it protects a person who yells “FIRE!” in a crowded theater.
In law, hate speech is any speech, gesture or conduct, writing, or display which is forbidden because it may incite violence or prejudicial action against or by a protected individual or group. The law may identify a protected individual or a protected group by race, gender, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, or other characteristic.
I’d say that Terry Jones’ website qualified, and that Rackspace was well within its rights and charter to shut it down.
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