Middle augustus 2005 knew Justice Minister Donner in response to parliamentary questions – to report that the prosecutor initiated an investigation into criminal statements on the Dutch web forum of the site Stormfront.org. The prosecution itself, however, covers itself in advance and notify: It is not easy to study because participants often use nicknames. We're still in the middle of. Such research is not a, two, three completed. This is shown, Stormfront.org far, more than ten years, the Dutch web forum over five years. 
Ten years ago, the Internet was not even in its infancy. People who had heard all of the associated with nerds and hackers. In the Netherlands, less than two years before the first publicly accessible Internet provider founded (Xs4all). In the United States, the spread of the Internet was already slightly penetrated further, but there was also a massive interest no question. Op 27 maart 1995 began a former Ku Klux Klan leader Don Black's website Stormfront. He was thus one of the first, who brought a far-right website in the air.
At first it was a slow growing Stormfront website with lots of Nazi propaganda and swastika pictures that you could download almost entirely focused on the United States. The international character consisted of a small German-speaking and Spanish-speaking departments, which some texts were placed. The site was used for international communication. In any case, from 1997 namely, there was a discussion list via email operational. Also, these were mostly Americans use, but also one Dutchman. A notable user of the first hour was Evert Mouw. Sleeve presented himself as there convinced National Socialist and Hitler Trailer. Sleeve was IT in training and was still living in his parents' house in the Veluwe. He recently resurfaced briefly as the National Alliance.
But Sleeve was an exception. That changed around the millennium. With the rest increasingly right-wing extremists in the Netherlands were also in possession of a computer with internet connection, build websites went and searched digital contact. In 1998 Stormfront started a web forum as a new service for those interested. That connected perfectly with the needs of the Dutch-minded, approximately in 2000 got a private forum called Stormfront Netherlands (later renamed Stormfront Netherlands & Vlaanderen).
The forum was in many ways a success formula. Firstly it was a lot easier to implement practical and political discussions. Second, there could suddenly with ease political propaganda and action calls are distributed among a large group of interested people. Third, the forum was a good way to recruit new followers. Fourth, it seemed like a way to make criminal statements yet publicized: the computers that are running Stormfront Indeed, in the United States, where the Dutch criminal law does not apply. In addition, the anonymity of the participants made it difficult to determine the true identity, if there was lawbreaking.
That led to all right-wing parties, and very many prominent activists volunteered to Stormfront to put their party propaganda there and discussion to engage with like-minded. But the disadvantages soon came into focus. Now the discussions on Stormfront were conducted openly, allowing non-sympathizing people read along. And that turned out to have unpleasant consequences. Initially, people were convinced that the use of an American forum criminality for the Dutch law excluded. That proved a myth. Several people were arrested as a result of extremist messages on Stormfront and sentenced. When the contents of messages on the Internet at Netherlands aimed, Dutch law does indeed, regardless of where the messages are physically (#1). A bigger eyesore of many posters Stormfront was read along with political opponents. Which proved by to collect the intensive use of the forum a lot of useful information (#2). Moreover, there were users of the forum by the high-Nazi content (#3) to make the Stormfront forum is publicity vulnerable. A good example was the extreme right Rotterdam councilor Michiel Smit. During the period when he was still a member of Livable Rotterdam group he posted under the pseudonym wooninrotterdam on the Stormfront forum. By the radical content of his posts, but also by the character of Stormfront caused a riot in the media and in the Liveable Rotterdam fraction. Eventually sit Smit in the fraction, after being quite gone through the dust, but his Stormfront adventure haunts him to this day.
Lightweights or not, when the Prosecution indeed intends to tackle posters on Stormfront has with this trio have good candidates in the hands. Not only do they decide the appropriate punishment worthy messages to their name, Moreover, they are – as moderator team – fully responsible for all other messages that appear on the Dutch part of Stormfront.
(#1) Remarkably enough, this actually happened only in Zaandam. It showed good cooperation between the Anti-Discrimination Bureau, Police and the Public
Ministry a sufficient number of people very radical statements made to condemn stormfront.org. Why this was omitted in other regions is not known.
(#2) The Dutch Nazi band Brigade M even wrote a song about the Internet here Informants whose chorus:
Internet informers
worse than infiltrators
The AIVD reads cheerful note
and Kafka again what to write
Keyboard terrorists
slaapkamernationalisten
Maar module, The motion reads it
And your body will soon float
(#3) The Stormfront forum, as well as the website, dominated by National Socialists who lavish scatter with swastikas, SS-runes, jodenhaat in holocaustontkenning.
(#4) When Jan Teijn twice by mistake the same message posted by another alter ego he was caught by the Stormfront moderator. Who could gestook only moderately appreciate and threatened to expel him. Then Teijn came with a clear statement: Bomber (a fellow who sometimes use my computer, because he himself has no) has forgotten to log out, so that other name appeared.
