Well it took a while, but I can now reveal for the first time that O2 and Symantec are blocking an official UK Fathers4Justice website. Previously, Symantec/O2 have only smeared the Fathers4Justice Quebec branch as "hate" and have allowed members in other countries campaign freely to have a relationship with their own children.
While the main Fathers4Justice domain isn't blocked at present, a newer campaign site, Contactdeniers.com is categorised as "hate" and thus cannot be accessed by up to 100 million people worldwide. The site in question "is for the naming and shaming of contact deniers - parents, solicitors, judges, Cafcass officers, MP’s and any other parties involved in contact denial and the forcible separation of children from their fathers." It's relatively new so far from complete, perhaps readers of this blog can help out by adding an entry or two?
Fathers4Justice certainly aren't above criticism, they do occasionally engage in very minor acts of law breaking and these type of sites may also run into legal troubles if false information is added. However, none of this is the business of any ISP and it most certainly doesn't constitute hate. The tactics of Father4Justice are very tame compared to countless other activist groups campaigning on different issues, and it's telling that even an openly violent and transphobic radical feminist environmental group such as Deep Green Resistance gets classed as "politics" and is therefore freely accessible to all.
There are wider issues to consider here too, Father4Justice use the motto of "The Campaign against the Fatherless Society", and their Name and Shame campaign has the motto that "contact denial is child abuse". If O2 and Symantec block such sites, then are they in favour of the move towards a fatherless society? If they seek to protect contact deniers and even believe exposing such conduct to be "hate" then presumably they support these violations of the human rights of men and children? Rather than blocking these men's human rights organisations, it is surely the duty of ISPs to enable young adults to learn about and access websites of organisations who stand up for their rights. One of the more vocal and successful Fathers4Justice campaigners of late is under 18 herself!
In a way I actually welcome this move by these companies. Poking one of the bigger beasts of the men's rights movements with a stick in this way really can't be expected to end well for O2/Symantec. As in all other cases I'll be emailing F4J to let them know all about this and I don't expect they'll be best pleased and if anyone who has contacts at Father4Justice could do the same then it would really be appreciated Perhaps some O2 and Symantec executives will be even find themselves added to the name and shame list…
by John Kimble
While the main Fathers4Justice domain isn't blocked at present, a newer campaign site, Contactdeniers.com is categorised as "hate" and thus cannot be accessed by up to 100 million people worldwide. The site in question "is for the naming and shaming of contact deniers - parents, solicitors, judges, Cafcass officers, MP’s and any other parties involved in contact denial and the forcible separation of children from their fathers." It's relatively new so far from complete, perhaps readers of this blog can help out by adding an entry or two?
Fathers4Justice certainly aren't above criticism, they do occasionally engage in very minor acts of law breaking and these type of sites may also run into legal troubles if false information is added. However, none of this is the business of any ISP and it most certainly doesn't constitute hate. The tactics of Father4Justice are very tame compared to countless other activist groups campaigning on different issues, and it's telling that even an openly violent and transphobic radical feminist environmental group such as Deep Green Resistance gets classed as "politics" and is therefore freely accessible to all.
There are wider issues to consider here too, Father4Justice use the motto of "The Campaign against the Fatherless Society", and their Name and Shame campaign has the motto that "contact denial is child abuse". If O2 and Symantec block such sites, then are they in favour of the move towards a fatherless society? If they seek to protect contact deniers and even believe exposing such conduct to be "hate" then presumably they support these violations of the human rights of men and children? Rather than blocking these men's human rights organisations, it is surely the duty of ISPs to enable young adults to learn about and access websites of organisations who stand up for their rights. One of the more vocal and successful Fathers4Justice campaigners of late is under 18 herself!
In a way I actually welcome this move by these companies. Poking one of the bigger beasts of the men's rights movements with a stick in this way really can't be expected to end well for O2/Symantec. As in all other cases I'll be emailing F4J to let them know all about this and I don't expect they'll be best pleased and if anyone who has contacts at Father4Justice could do the same then it would really be appreciated Perhaps some O2 and Symantec executives will be even find themselves added to the name and shame list…
by John Kimble
On the face it the actions of O2 look blatantly shameful and appalling, primarily because they are blatantly shameful and appalling. There are ugly forces at play here, time and History will eventually call them to account.
Posted by: ZimbaZumba | Thursday, 11 July 2013 at 09:51
In the United States there was a similar but maybe a little more blatant campaign called, the Fathers4Justice "Asshole of the month".
This particular page had more visitors than any other page or campaign ever. Public officials like President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden had their names and faces attached to the ass of a mule for the whole world to see and see they did.
Like any of these tactics it too was met with controversy, "How dare you put the picture of the president of the United States on a mules ass".
The campaign of course did not end there, judges names and faces were added and soon the hosting company, Honeycomb pulled the plug, accidentally they say and destroyed the website, requesting $850.00 to rebuild the site which they held hostage, with no access for the site owners for over a year.
The website is being rebuilt now and can be located here: http://fathers4justice.org but the damage of turning off a website for a year is hard to repair. Years of faithful followers of Children's, Fathers, Mothers and Grandparents rights activists were lost forever. Now the new host, Siteground is threatening to remove the site based on excessive use...
The Facebook page was attacked and deleted shortly thereafter and it too is still in the process of being rebuilt. It seems that for the United States, only the Twitter account located at: https://twitter.com/Fathers4Justice and the LinkedIn account located at: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=2507726 have been allowed to retain their right to free speech.
Either way, Fathers4Justice will continue their campaign for our children's rights. maybe if we place the pictures of the president of 02 and Symantec on the "Asshole of the month" http://fathers4justice.org/content/fathers-4-justice-asshole-month-campaign they too will realize, we are just not going away. There is in fact, no more noble of a cause than to fight for the rights of our children.
JUSTICE IS COMING!!!
Posted by: Donald Tenn | Wednesday, 17 July 2013 at 00:06