- HostingAnime
HostingAnime or Hosting Anime was a free
web hosting service which was supposedly based in Westchester,California . The company rented webspace from aHouston ,Texas -based server known asEveryones Internet . Despite the name, it had nothing to do with Japaneseanime .The company has raised some controversy amongst some
Internet -users for hosting many suspectedal-Qaeda -run websites which advocatejihad against theUnited States and other US-led occupation forces inIraq andAfghanistan .al-Qaeda webhost
HostingAnime has been the
internet service provider for websites which show thebehead ing images and video of Paul Johnson,Kim Sun-il ,Eugene Armstrong andJack Hensley , run by terror groups likeTawhid and Jihad . The company citedfree speech as a justification for hosting such content.In
2004 , the website won a court victory declaring it perfectly legal for them to host such content, even though theFederal Bureau of Investigation andU.S. Department of Justice have knowledge of the sites being hosted. TheFederal Bureau of Investigation has stated that the company is allowed to host such sites because theU.S. Constitution protectsfreedom of speech .As of
November 16 2004 , HostingAnime suspended all militant-linked webpages on its servers. This was due to the purchase of HostingAnime by new owners.False information
HostingAnime was registered under a false address and owner name.Jeremy Reynalds reported that the contact address provided for HostingAnime is 8939 S. Sepulveda Blvd. Westchester, California 90045. According to the building manager at that location, HostingAnime was not a tenant but a web-hosting company known as
Namecheap , HostingAnime'sdomain name registrar , does maintain offices there.Downtime
As of
May 18 2006 , HostingAnime appears to be down, returning a 404 error for trying to access the site. Free-webhosts.com has since removed HostingAnime from its list of available free web hosts [http://www.free-webhosts.com/reviews/HostingAnime.php] .External links
* [http://www.americandaily.com/article/3769 Article on HostingAnime's False Registration]
* [http://www.americandaily.com/article/4563 Article on HostingAnime]
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