Secret Censorship on Royal Dutch Shell ‘Tell Shell’ Internet Forum
Sunday 14 August 2005
Secret Censorship on Royal Dutch Shell “Tell Shell” Internet Forum By John Donovan “Tell Shell” is a discussion forum buried deep within the www.shell.com website which supposedly provides a facility for site visitors to openly express their views about Royal Dutch Shell and its business operations.
Printed below is a description of the “Tell Shell” facility by Shell International Petroleum Company Limited as the Complainant in proceedings filed with the World Intellectual Property Organisation in May 2005. The proceedings were in respect of the domain name: “TellShell.Org” (set up almost a year ago as an alternative to the official facility.)
“Tell Shell” is a facility set up in November 1998 to promote feedback from customers, shareholders or any other interested parties on topics and issues relating to Shell, and to enable the Complainant to respond to public concerns and criticism in an open and transparent way.
The following forms part of the introduction to the unofficial site: –
“TellShell.org is designed to provide an alternative to the heavily censored official forum – (TellShell) which claims to be committed to “open and transparent dialogue” about the Royal Dutch Shell Group and associated matters. In reality the webmaster has displayed a bias on behalf of Shell which has recently led to numerous well-founded, rational contributions being summarily deleted from the site. A number of contributors have voiced their complaints about the blatant censorship.”
Because of an assurance received from the webmaster of Tell Shell last year, the unofficial version has subsequently remained dormant.
Regular contributors to the Tell Shell site were therefore surprised at what happened at the beginning of August 2005. A disgruntled former Shell Area Manager, Mr John Whitehead, posted comments on Tell Shell. Within 48 hours the comments had vanished without trace and without any censorship notice being displayed. Previously a legal notice had been displayed whenever a posting had been removed by the site censor.
The current censorship policy is therefore even more objectionable than was the case formally. It is a far more perfidious form of censorship on what was once billed as a forum for “open and transparent dialogue” and “lively debate”. Now even the censorship notice has been censored. So much for Shell’s claim (as stated above) that “Tell Shell” allows it to “respond to public concerns and criticism in an open and transparent way.”
The censorship debacle on Tell Shell exposes once again the huge credibility gap between Shell’s PR claims, compared with the actual reality of its actions. Like Shell’s Statement of General Business Principles, pledging honesty, integrity and openness in all of Shell’s dealings, Shell’s claim that it conducts the “Tell Shell” facility in “an open and transparent way”is a laughable charade.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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