> WASHINGTON -- Nationalists have jumped into the fray to protect
> free-speech over the Internet. In response to "Announcement 2000-84"
> from the Internal Revenue Service, they have submitted their
> opposition to a proposal which would penalize organizations which
> allow links from their websites to other groups.
>
> The IRS is attempting to embellish its present Methodology Test,
> under challenge in the courts, which allows taxation of groups which
> use "emotional" language. The District of Columbia Court of Appeals
> has, already, invalidated a similar regulation. The IRS proposal,
> issued in the waning days of the Clinton Administration, would
> prevent someone in a forum from linking to a report in a newspaper,
> if the newspaper is deemed to be "emotional," or to cite to a
> political party. Crosstar already removes such links, but says that
> education will suffer if forum participants cannot fully express
> themselves.
>
> The IRS presently exempts groups identified as "Afro," "Jewish,"
> "Hispanic" and homosexual from its language prohibitions.
>
> http://www.nationalist.org/ATW/2001/feb.html#Opposition