LAWS in the US against “cyber-squatting” came under fire last week when a
white supremacist group registered the domain name
www.martinlutherking.org/
and set up the website to masquerade as a legitimate civil rights information
resource.
Yet although this is a clear case of cyber-squatting, the new legislation,
passed only last November to prevent precisely this sort of occurrence, is
powerless to act.
Hosted by Stormfront.org, an online white supremacist organisation which is
long established, the website is ostensibly a “historical examination” of the
assassinated civil rights leader’s life. In fact, it is peddling its own view of
history under this…
