This short section is chilling and repulsive. The reader is left in no doubt just how the drafters of the report regard those who persist in doubting the wisdom of the multi-racial project. We are told in the opening paragraph that 'on-line racism should be a punishable offence' and in the following paragraph that it must be made clear to everyone that 'in Europe racism is not an opinion but a crime'. In fact, the whole section is peppered with references to the 'propagation of racial hatred', 'racist criminals', 'hate messages' and such like. Most revolting of all is the not uncommon equation of 'racism' with child pornography.

Disingenuously, the report at one point actually defines a 'racist website' as one which is 'designed to promote the superiority of a particular race'. No self-respect

In mid-April 2001 my website was briefly removed by Yahoo! because of its political content. In fact, Yahoo! graciously admitted their mistake after only a few days and the site was reinstated but the whole affair still gave me quite a shock. It also brought a little belated - and rather negative - publicity. On 1 May a report appeared on the website of The Guardian headed 'No Yahoo! for racist UK website'. The report contained a number of inaccuracies - not least that it failed to mention that the site had been reinstated more than a fortnight previously (it also imputed dishonesty to me by stating that I had falsely claimed that Yahoo! had sponsored the site and said the newspaper had tried to contact me, which - to the best of my knowledge - is not true).

ing liberal would take such a restrictive view of what constitutes racism and I am sure if the recommendations contained in the report are enacted they will not be enforced so narrowly. Racism - as anyone who has ever spoken out against government policy in this area will know only too well - is interpreted by our political masters to mean any criticism of mass immigration and the multi-racial society, however reasonable.

So US providers are not quite a safe haven for the free expression of opinion even now. What future then for a site like mine? Might it one day join those sites which wander the web looking for a home? I am thinking particularly of a French-Canadian site called La Droite Nationaliste (The Nationalist Right). This is a valuable site as it contains a vast array of links to radical right groups all over the world. But it has disappeared and reappeared elsewhere so frequently over the past year that I have given up trying to keep track of it and finally removed the link to it from my links page.

All of which is of great interest to me as I have a website expressing criticism of Britain's multi-racial society which currently resides on an American server. But as I learned recently even without the proposed convention such a site by no means enjoys a secure existence on the web.

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