Lib Dem cyber-propaganda targets Plaid Cymru
RIPitUp | 30.05.2001 10:18
Lib Dem Councillor cybersquats domain and places misleading information on 'official' lib dem site in poorly executed propaganda stunt...
On 12th May 2001 the domain plaid-cymru.co.uk was registered via Webfusion by one John Dixon.
If you look at the page at http://www.plaid-cymru.co.uk you get the message:
"Due to high server demand, this page is temporarily unavailable."
The source code for that page is as follows:
Not the Plaid Cymru home page
Sorry, you don't appear to have frame support. Go here instead.
This means the page you see when you look at www.plaid-cymru.co.uk is actualy the page http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.dixon12/not_plaid, which is a page residing on the "official website of the Adamsdown ward of the Welsh Liberal Democrats" (accessible via http://www.adamsdown.org.uk and co.uk but really at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.dixon12/), jointly run by Lib Dem Councillors John Dixon and Nigel Howells.
Cybersquatting the domain plaid-cymru.co.uk is one thing, placing an obviously misleading statement (that's a lie to you and me) on what claims to be an official lib dem website is quite another!
(Nb back in January, the Labour Party posted negative and anonymous comments about Plaid Cymru on a range of newsgroups, except they omitted to disguise their IP addresses which led straight back to Millbank - doh!)
If you look at the page at http://www.plaid-cymru.co.uk you get the message:
"Due to high server demand, this page is temporarily unavailable."
The source code for that page is as follows:
Not the Plaid Cymru home page
Sorry, you don't appear to have frame support. Go here instead.
This means the page you see when you look at www.plaid-cymru.co.uk is actualy the page http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.dixon12/not_plaid, which is a page residing on the "official website of the Adamsdown ward of the Welsh Liberal Democrats" (accessible via http://www.adamsdown.org.uk and co.uk but really at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.dixon12/), jointly run by Lib Dem Councillors John Dixon and Nigel Howells.
Cybersquatting the domain plaid-cymru.co.uk is one thing, placing an obviously misleading statement (that's a lie to you and me) on what claims to be an official lib dem website is quite another!
(Nb back in January, the Labour Party posted negative and anonymous comments about Plaid Cymru on a range of newsgroups, except they omitted to disguise their IP addresses which led straight back to Millbank - doh!)
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