Strom would later be convicted of possessing images of child pornography.



"And so we go on inventing Voltaire," Cronk wrote. "Another dictum that has recently gained wide currency on the web is this: 'To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.'

"Now regularly attributed to Voltaire, this saying seems to originate with something written in 1993 by Kevin Alfred Strom, an American neo-Nazi Holocaust denier, and not a man who obviously exudes Voltairean wit and irony.

"But once you become an authority, it seems, all sides have a claim on you."

The ENF aren't the first to be taken in by the quote. In 2015, conservative Australian senator Cory Bernardi tweeted and later deleted the line.