Curbing Racism on the Web - Less Effective Daily
Again, I'm running across wildly differing estimates of the scope of hate online, but largely agreement about the inability to battle it, such as this tid-bit I found:
The safeguards which some countries have devised to curb racism on the Web are daily becoming less effective. [emphasis added] Indeed, anti-racist associations report that racist sites are proliferating. Some 160 sites of this kind were operating from the US in 1995. There are now over 2 500, and they shelter behind the free-speech guarantee written into the First Amendment to the US Constitution, using it to disseminate hate-filled propaganda and revisionist texts, and peddle neo-Nazi cult items: swastikas, CDs, videos, etc.
Some experts put the number of sites openly encouraging racial violence at about 4 000 (one Swiss site, for example, features a "black list" of people hostile to skinheads).
From The Council of Europe, the body responsible for regulating the Internet in Europe.
The safeguards which some countries have devised to curb racism on the Web are daily becoming less effective. [emphasis added] Indeed, anti-racist associations report that racist sites are proliferating. Some 160 sites of this kind were operating from the US in 1995. There are now over 2 500, and they shelter behind the free-speech guarantee written into the First Amendment to the US Constitution, using it to disseminate hate-filled propaganda and revisionist texts, and peddle neo-Nazi cult items: swastikas, CDs, videos, etc.
Some experts put the number of sites openly encouraging racial violence at about 4 000 (one Swiss site, for example, features a "black list" of people hostile to skinheads).
From The Council of Europe, the body responsible for regulating the Internet in Europe.
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