The company has generally refused to block Holocaust denial material, but has worked with human rights groups to take down some content linked to organizations or groups, like the government of Iran, for which Holocaust denial is part of a larger campaign against Jews.
For example, the parliamentary inquiry took on trust the allegations of Mitch Simmons that the Muslim public affairs committee believes Holocaust-denial material to be "acceptable" - though a cursory search of MPAC's website demonstrates otherwise: "If anyone denies the Holocaust they are very wrong - Holocaust denial is an evil that must be opposed".
The Toronto-based photo retoucher Ernst Zündel operated a small-press called Samisdat Publishers, which published and distributed Holocaust-denial material such as Did Six Million Really Die? by Richard Harwood (a pseudonym of Richard Verrall – a British neo-Nazi).
Bloggers later found that Bishop had likely cut and pasted the material from climate science denial blogs.
Decisions by the company not to remove material related to Holocaust denial or pages critical of Islam and other religions, for example, have annoyed advocacy groups and prompted some foreign governments to temporarily block the site.
Like the vast range of other non-peer-reviewed material produced by the denial community, book authors can make whatever claims they wish, no matter how scientifically unfounded.
Collins and his lawyer, Rudin, have alleged in court papers that the denial of this material was part of a concerted effort overseen by Vecchione.
Therefore, if this was a critical thinking exercise, why didn't the school provide any credible material in response to Holocaust denial?
A distinction is made between child poverty, related to material disadvantage and deprivation, and denial of children's rights.
Rendition, waterboarding, prison without trial, denial of reading materials... Perhaps they're right.
