Banish the Cyber-Bigots
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/24/AR200909...
Banish the Cyber-Bigots
By Michael Gerson
Friday, September 25, 2009
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Cyberhate
Hate crimes trial underway in Quesnel, B.C.
A BC man is on trial in Quesnel for promoting hatred against Jewish people through his website.
Roy Arthur Topham was charged in 2012, after complaints to the RCMP Hate Crimes Unit.
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Adolf Hitler admirer upset Capilano University turfed him as Buddhist meditation instructor
A Vancouver resident who expresses admiration for Adolf Hitler and the Nazis on YouTube says he’s been “fired” by Capilano University as a continuing-education instructor.
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Countering hate speech on social media
Social media has proven itself to be the greatest bastion of free speech on the Internet. Governments have usually refrained to interfere in this domain and until now the arena is marked with a great sense of openness. People express their political and social views publicly and in a rather frank manner. But this fondness for freedom of expression has lead to emergence of a disturbing trend over the years as the line between freedom of speech and hate speech has become blurred.
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YouTube puts an end to vicious, anonymous comments which have turned site into 'Wild West'
UK Proposal Will Force Sites to Identify 'Trolls'
Nation-wide searches of operators of the right-wing internet forum "Thiazi.net"
BKA: The State Prosecution of Rostock and the German Federal Crime Department announce: : Nationwide searches of operators of the right-wing internet forum "Thiazi.net"
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Four held as cops target fascist web masters
Police arrested four people suspected of running an international far-right extremist website after early morning raids on 24 addresses in 11 of Germany’s 16 states – and one in Britain – on Thu
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Terry Tremaine Neo-Nazi case won’t be heard by Supreme Court, Human Rights Tribunal ruling stands
OTTAWA — Canada’s top court will not hear an appeal in a case involving a neo-Nazi leader’s web postings that could have determined the power of Canada’s quasi-judicial human rights tribunals.
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