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Rec.music.white-power newsgroup vote
The '''''rec.music.white-power'' newsgroup vote''' took place in [[February]] of [[1996]].  The [[newsgroup]] was proposed by Milton Kleim, a person known as one of the most vocal online proponents of the [[white supremacist]] movement, and a person who had started a number of vicious flame wars on various newsgroups.  His original proposal for the newsgroup stated that it would be a forum for "discussion of [[white supremacist|White Power]] music."

Because Kleim was proposing a newsgroup in the "[[Great Renaming|Big seven]]" hierarchy (which has since become the "Big Eight"), the proposal had to undergo the standard approval vote.  Anyone with an email address could vote for any newsgroup, and the approval vote for ''rec.music.white-power'' was announced far and wide by many people, both in favor of, and opposed to, the newsgroup.

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*[http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=833851386.24895%40uunet.uu.net&rnum=1 Statement by the vote moderator on the violent opposition to the newsgroup]
*[http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&th=edfc70e029e6b424&seekm=31C6A022.1919%40twics.com&frame=off Statement by Milton Kleim on ''rec.music.white-power'']