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Crime Expo South Africa (CESA) was a website that detailed crime in South Africa and encouraged victims to tell their stories. Pages on the site dealt with murder, rape, farm attacks and armed robbery. The stated aim of the site was "''to provide foreigners with detailed information and regular updates regarding the issue of safety in South Africa''".〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Crime Expo South Africa ) Expired on 21 November 2006.〕 The site was started on 4 July 2006 purportedly by a Neil Watson, later purportedly joined by Shaun Thompson; although newspaper reports later suggested that both of these may have been noms-de-plume of a gay rights activist, Juan Duval Uys. On 21 November 2006 the website was suspended due to the failure of the owners to remove what the hosting service deemed to be abusive content. Watson stated that the offending comments were left by hackers as part of a smear campaign to discredit the site, and that the site would be relaunched with a new host by 30 November 2006. The site was back online at the url (crimexposouthafrica.net ), but, as of October 2008, is discontinued. == Reaction == The site received much criticism for "''highlighting negative news and ignoring successes in the fight against crime''". In particular, criticism came from the tourism sector for "''skewing the truth''", as well as the South African Football Association for "''counteracting job creation by discouraging tourism and investment''" (South Africa hosted the 2010 FIFA World Cup). The Crime Expo site contended that South African tourism agencies were only interested in the money spent by international tourists, not in their safety, and were thus downplaying publicity on the violent crimes committed in the country.〔 In response to the Crime Expo website, several individuals started opposing sites claiming to provide a more balanced view of crime in the country. The two most prominent ones are Real South Africa (started by Pieter Boshoff), whose stated aim is to "''make a positive contribution to the development of the country by following a positive approach''",〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Real South Africa )〕 and True Crime Expo(created by Malan Jacobs), which was started "''to try and bring some perspective in this debate''."〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=True Crime Expo – Bringing perspective to Crime Expo )〕 Further websites have been developed more recently that enable "public interactivity in the debate". Crime Out Loud (created by Claudio Caldeira), displays a more interactive, community-based website for a balanced debate.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.crimeoutloud.co.za )〕 Boshoff's website has been endorsed by prominent businessman Raymond Ackerman, which led to a call from Watson for people to boycott Ackerman's Pick 'n Pay supermarket and to send e-mail and text messages to the chain. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Crime Expo South Africa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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