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April 29, 1998
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A Canadian company pulled the plug on the Web sites it hosts for right-wing extremist groups. The president of Fairview Technology Center denied that he had bowed to pressure from human rights activists, who have dubbed Oliver, British Columbia — the town in which Fairview is located — the “Hate Capital of Canada.” Among the sites hosted by Fairview was one for a French neo-Nazi group that had allegedly contained death threats against Jews and European human rights activists.

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