Re: How Dave Touretzky censored my website


Chance Hopkins wrote:
> Are you crazy?

No, are you?

The Internet Free Speech Study Center also is keeing a close eye on
Dave Touretzky.

Barbara Schwarz


http://www.pressbox.co.uk/detailed/Internet/CMU_s_FREE_SPEECH_PROFESSOR_CENSORS_INTERNET_SITES_35189.html

CMU's "FREE SPEECH" PROFESSOR CENSORS INTERNET SITES
Added: (Mon Aug 29 2005)

When a perfectly legal web site is removed from the worldwide web for
no
other reason than someone didn't like what its author had to say, the
last
person you would suspect to have engineered this subversion of free
speech
is a university professor.

Carnegie Mellon's David Touretzky who, while claiming to be a "free
speech
activist," appears to be on a low profile campaign to shut down
websites
that expose some of his nastier hobbies.

Over the past few years Barbara Schwarz of Utah has attempted to
publish
racist statements made by Touretzky only to watch helplessly as each of
her
websites was systematically shut down. Schwarz claims that Mr.
Touretzky
uses his position at CMU and threat of legal action to intimidate ISPs
into
removing her sites. Commenting on condition of anonymity, several of
these
ISPs confirmed Schwarz's claims.

"Touretzky has never threatened to sue me for what I have made
available on
the web. Instead he goes behind my back and lies to ISPs and threatens
them
with a law suit," Schwarz states on her website. "Why do you think he
never
sued me? Because he knows I have the documentation to prove what I
write in
my website. He knows that in discovery I will subpoena his telephone
records, the places where he purchased his sex toys, using Carnegie
Mellon
facilities. Touretzky has consistently attacked my right to express my
opinion. He has censored my website many times and is trying to silence
me
for telling the truth about him. Touretzky claims to be a free speech
advocate, but not when someone is critical of him."

The website claims that Dr. Touretzky's other hobbies include using CMU
servers to mirror a site that offers detailed instructions how to build
a
homemade bomb, and his nightly forays into public chat rooms produce a
wealth of racist statements about minorities, such as this one about
African
Americans:

Touretzky statements are:

"The black underclass is a very, very sick culture, with terrible
internal
problems such as high rates of black-on-black murder, teenage
pregnancy,
educational failure, drug abuse, and so on. AA programs can't help the
black
underclass, because those people are so screwed up they're virtually
unemployable. ."

And this one about abortion:

"Hell, I'm for post-partum abortion! Retro-active abortion! Up until,
say,
the age of six months."

Of course, Touretzky defends his outrageous statements as exercising
his
right to free speech - a right he apparently doesn't extend to Schwarz,
leaving us to wonder how he expects to be taken seriously as one who
believes in the first amendment, let alone claims himself a defender.

Perhaps out of frustration, Schwarz's new website,
http://schwartz.narod.ru,
fires a salvo guaranteed to hit the hypocritical Touretzky where it
hurts.
It seems the researcher, whose experiments on rats are heavily
subsidized by
the U.S. government, made the mistake of purchasing sex toys from his
Carnegie Mellon office. The invoice is posted, along with some
humorously
explicit visual aids, but anyone interested had better hurry and take a
look
because, once CMU's "defender of free speech" sees it, it's not likely
to
last.

The Internet Free Speech Study Center


>
>
> "Barbara Schwarz" <barbara.schwarz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1128007515.700490.231870@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: How David Touretzky censored my website
> >
> > My name is Barbara Schwarz and for the past few years I have been
> > attempting to expose racist statements made by a rat brain researcher
> > at Carnegie Mellon University, David Touretzky. I have also been
> > attempting to expose the fact this individual has purchased sexual
> > implements using the university's phone number.
> >
> > Touretzky has systematically used his position as "research scientist"
> > to intimidate every single ISP or web host to remove my websites.
> > Touretzky threatens with "libel suits", but he never provided any
> > evidence as to what the libelous statement was. Touretzky has never
> > threatened to sue me for what I have made available on the web.
> > Instead he goes behind my back and lies to ISPs and threatens them with
> > a law suit. Why do you think he never sued me? Because he knows I have
> > the documentation to prove what I write in my website. He knows that
> > in discovery I will subpoena his telephone records, the places where he
> > purchased his sex toys, using Carnegie Mellon facilities.
> >
> > Touretzky has consistently attacked my right to express my opinion. He
> > has censored my website many times and is trying to silence me for
> > telling the truth about him. Touretzky claims to be a free speech
> > advocate, but not when someone is critical of him. For example,
> > Touretzky is mirroring bomb information and promotes that website from
> > his Carnegie Mellon University site. He uses a public chat room to
> > make racist statements against African Americans, Hispanics, and other
> > ethnic groups.
> >
> > Touretzky was confronted with his racist statements on a radio show and
> > he did not deny them.
> >
> > Here are some of the racist statements David Touretzky made in a public
> > chat forum:
> >
> > "She [Diane Watson] is the former ambassador to Micronesia! and she's
> > black. I should have known. What are all the really st00000pid
> > congresswomen black?"
> >
> > "The black underclass is a very, very sick culture, with terrible
> > internal problems such as high rates of black-on-black murder, teenage
> > pregnancy, educational failure, drug abuse, and so on. AA programs
> > can't help the black underclass, because those people are so screwed up
> > they're virtually unemployable. ..."
> >
> >
> > "... they republished a long rant of mine about how women should have
> > sole responsibility for conception ... a rant which was very well
> > worded, and which I'm rather proud of now that they reminded me of it.
> > There's also a long rant about the sickness of black underclass
> > culture, which again, I completely stand behind."
> >
> > "... the Salvation Army ... buncha fuckheads."
> >
> > "Man, Hispanics are fucked up, which is why they're still working
> > class. Dipshits."
> >
> > "*** the Muslims. .... check out the bloody Muslims .. jeez what
> > loons."
> >
> > "Hell, I'm for post-partum abortion! Retro-active abortion! Up until,
> > say, the age of six months."
> >
> > Here is the site that Touretzky doesn't want you to see:
> >
> >
> > PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
> >
> > To parents of students at Carnegie Mellon University
> >
> > If you are the parent of a student who attends Carnegie Mellon
> > University, this PSA is to help you.
> >
> > David Touretzky is a research scientist at Carnegie Mellon University,
> > and he teaches some of your children.
> >
> > David Touretzky owns a website that contains instructions on how to
> > build bombs. One of these instructions encourages people to throw the
> > bomb into police cars. Touretzky mirrored a site that was removed by
> > the FBI after its original creator was arrested and prosecuted. David
> > Touretzky claims he created the mirror as a matter of free speech. In
> > my view this is not an innocent lack of judgment by David Touretzky
> > for, as they say, where there is smoke there is fire, and Touretzky is
> > involved in other activities. For example, during his work time he
> > associates with individuals on the internet who harass religions and
> > ethnic groups. Some of them posted threats against people they dislike.
> >
> > Touretzky has perversions that parents of CMU students should be
> > informed about. He is a customer of sex shops and purchases sexual
> > implements. The invoice posted on this website is the evidence of such
> > activity, and it also shows that Touretzky used his University office
> > phone number for the sex shop to contact him. You can compare the phone
> > number listed in the invoice, 412 268-7561
> > (www.csd.cs.cmu.edu/people/faculty_s-z.html), with the phone number
> > listed in the university directory which goes to David Touretzky's
> > office. Touretzky has pornographic photographs on his CMU website,
> > which he covered in part and removed some after I exposed him.
> >
> > There are some questions you should ask yourself when it comes to David
> > Touretzky:
> >
> > Why would Touretzky provide instructions on how to build explosives?
> >
> > What if a student, like it happened in Columbine, downloads Touretzky's
> > information, builds it and sets it off against people, who would be
> > responsible?
> >
> > Why would the University allow Touretzky to use his office phone to
> > order sex toys?
> >
> > Who is paying for Touretzky's activities when he does it from the
> > University? Is it your tax dollar or tuition fees?
> >
> > There are deranged people and wannabe terrorists out there who want to
> > know how to build explosive devices and use them against innocent
> > victims. Even if Touretzky believes he has no responsibility for what
> > he puts up on his website, he will eventually be accountable for the
> > action that someone will undertake after having downloaded his bomb
> > instructions and set it off.
> >
> > Let Carnegie Mellon University know about your views of David
> > Touretzky.
> >
> > Barbara Schwarz
> >

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