It has been a couple years since we first looked at the issue of applying Canadian law to block illegal content entering the country over the internet.
At the time, the case had involved a US-based website that advocated harm against a Canadian. Because of international territorial boundaries, US law enforcement was unwilling to act on the host site.
The owner of that site may have finally crossed the line. The Roanoke Times reports that Bill White has been arrested and is being held without bond, at least until the Virgina judge can review more material on the potential danger posed by returning him to the streets.
The judge was concerned about a couple postings, including one that reads:
As long was we live in a society in which laws are not enforced against Jews, Marxists and other privileged members of the bourgeoisie, I will take advantage of that and use the lawless chaos they’ve created to push my view, which is that all Jews and Marxists … should be shot, rather than debated — along with their fellow travelers and chosen pets in the Negro ‘rights’ movement.
White hosts his content on his own servers. The servers were taken down late last week, in response to a warrant authorizing the seizure of electronic files and other records “that may contain all evidence of the crime of threatening” a juror in a 2004 Chicago trial of another white supremacist.
The Canadian case is cited in the warrant, as are postings calling for the assassination of a US presidential candidate. The arrest warrant is limited to the case of threatening the use of force against the jury foreman.
The trial is expected to take place in Chicago.