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Issue no. 366 - 3 September 2006

• CA - Tough Choice for CRTC in Hate Blocking Case (Michael Geist)
  The Law Bytes column looks at the decision by Canada's telecommunications regulator to decline to issue an order that would have opened the door to ISPs to block access to U.S.-based sites. The CRTC noted that the ISPs and the affected sites were not provided with advance warning nor the opportunity to present their views. See also CRTC asked to block access to U.S. websites (Canadian Press).

• EU - Call for action on extremist websites (Press Association)
  The whole of Europe faces a 'very real' and 'persistent' threat from terrorism, the home secretary, John Reid, warned, as an EU commissioner called for a crackdown on extremist websites. Mr Frattini also called for a crackdown on extremist internet sites and a meeting at European-level with schoolteachers to prevent classroom violence eventually leading to extremist radicalisation.

Issue no. 365 - 15 August 2006

• UK - Lords rule on 'grossly offensive' phone calls (out-law;com)
  A man who ranted and shouted in telephone calls to his MP should have been convicted for using racist terms that were 'grossly offensive'. The offence is a necessary limitation on everyone's right to freedom of expression, the House of Lords has ruled.

Issue no. 363 - 25 June 2006

• EU - The Need for a Unified Stance in Combating Racism and Xenophobia (RAPID)
  Speech by Vice-President Franco Frattini, European Commissioner responsible for Justice, Freedom and Security, Seminar on Racism and xenophobia, Vienna, 22 June 2006.

Issue no. 361 - 23 May 2006

• US - Report: Hate groups favor U.S. Internet servers to spread bile (AP)
  Hate groups around the world, including Islamic militants, often use Internet servers based in the United States to send propaganda and instructions to followers, according to a report released by the Simon Wiesenthal Center. In its eighth annual report on Internet hate speech, the Wiesenthal Center said it had logged some 6,000 Web sites in the past year used by racists and bigots to incite violence.

Issue no. 360 - 14 May 2006

• DE - Provider schalten rechtsextreme Webseiten schneller ab (Heise)
  250 rechtsextreme Propagandaplattformen wurden im vergangenen Jahr auf Veranlassung der länderübergreifenden Stelle Jugendschutz.net geschlossen. Das teilt das Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (BMFSFJ) mit. Insgesamt 370 Verstöße gegen Jugendschutz- und Strafrechtsbestimmungen stellte Jugenschutz.net 2005 fest, heißt es im Abschlussbericht (PDF-Datei) des vom BMFSFJ in Auftrag gegebenen Projekts Entimon. Seit 2001 hat Jugendschutz.net laut eigenen Angaben die Schließung von rund 750 rechtsextremen Webangeboten veranlasst.

Issue no. 357 - 26 March 2006

• Microsoft to offer free parental Web monitoring (Reuters)
  Microsoft plans to include a free service to help parents control and monitor what their children are doing online in its upcoming Windows Live offering of Web services.

Issue no. 356 - 27 February 2006

• AT - Irving gets three years' jail for Holocaust denial (Independent)
  David Irving was sentenced to three years in jail by an Austrian judge for denying, in two speeches he made 16 years ago, the existence of the gas chambers of the Second World War and the murder of six million Jews.

Issue no. 355 - 5 February 2006

• UK - Free speech concerns defeat Government (out-law.com)
  The Government suffered two shock defeats after miscalculations allowed rebel Labour and Opposition MPs to water down the controversial Racial and Religious Hatred Bill. Opponents feared that the Bill would restrict free speech. The Racial and Religious Hatred Bill is intended to close a loophole in the law that protects Sikh and Jewish communities from racial hatred, but does not give the same protection to Christians and Muslims.

• UN - Combating Racism on Internet (EDRI-gram)
  A High Level Seminar on Racism and the Internet took place in Geneva, during 16-17 January 2006. Dr. Yaman Akdeniz, director and founder of Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties prepared a background report for the seminar entitled Stocktaking on efforts to combat racism on the Internet.

Issue no. 352 - 18 December 2005

• AU - Bigots storm racist websites (Australian IT)
  Racist online forums have been inundated with postings by Australian white supremacists since the Cronulla race riots. The Australian forum on Stormfront - a white nationalist site offering advice to activists and dating advice for white singles - is a marginal website that frequently records fewer than 10 Australian members or guests at any one time. But a discussion board titled 'Do you think Cronulla is the start of the true fight for White Australia?' had attracted many responses, with some members calling for action.

Issue no. 349 - 27 November 2005

• DE - Düsseldorfer Bezirksregierung sieht sich erfolgreich im Kampf gegen Nazi-Websites (Heise)
  Die Düsseldorfer Bezirksregierung hat eine positive Bilanz ihres Kampfes gegen "Medienmissbrauch" gezogen. Besonders die Sperrung rechtsextremistischer "Hass-Seiten" sei in den vergangenen vier Jahren überaus erfolgreich gewesen, sagte Regierungspräsident Jürgen Büssow (SPD). Insgesamt habe die Behörde 76 Sperrungen solcher Seiten verfügt und sämtliche Klagen gewonnen. Zudem will Büssow gegen Phishing und private Sportwetten im Internet vorgehen.

Issue no. 348 - 13 November 2005

• EU - No agreement on the framework decision on combating racism and xenophobia (Luxembourg Presidency)
  European ministers of Justice and Home Affairs did not reach an agreement on the framework decision on combating racism and xenophobia during their meeting in Luxembourg on 2 June. Luc Frieden, President in office of the Justice and Home Affairs Council, underlined the importance the Luxembourg Presidency has attached to this issue. "Because of internal political discussions in some Member States, and in the absence of provisions regarding mutual legal assistance in the proposed framework decision, we could not find unanimous agreement. Personally I regret that because I wanted to find an agreement. It is now up to the Commission to see how we take this forward. I think I can say on behalf of the British Presidency, that in view of the discussions today, they are not going to continue these discussions in the near future."

Issue no. 347 - 19 October 2005

• International Network Against Cyber Hate meets in New York (ADL)
  The International Network Against Cyber Hate (INACH) the world's foremost organization working to counteract cyberspace bigotry held its fourth annual conference September 29 - 30 at National Headquarters of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in New York City. The INACH conference brought together American and European experts from academia, government, law enforcement and non-governmental organizations to examine the issues posed by online hate and ways in which governments and watchdog groups can work cooperatively to counteract it. ADL, which has long worked to study and expose hate on the Internet, is the U.S. representative in INACH, whose members come from around the world, including representatives from Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom and various other European nations.

• SG - Bloggers jailed for racist remarks (New Straits Times)
  Two men became the first bloggers in multi-racial Singapore to be punished under the city-state's tough anti-sedition legislation for posting racist remarks on the Internet. Benjamin Koh, 28, was given two concurrent one-month jail terms while Nicholas Lim, 25, was jailed for one day and fined S$5,000 (RM11,200) after they pleaded guilty to the June offences.

Issue no. 339 - 29 May 2005

• EU - Austria failed to implement race anti-discrimination Directive (RAPID)
  The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that Austria had breached EU law by failing to transpose fully a European Directive prohibiting discrimination on the grounds of race or ethnic origin (Directive 2000/43/EC). The deadline for EU Member States to transpose this Directive was 19 July 2003 - except for the 10 new Member States, who had to ensure that their legislation complied with the Directives by their accession to the EU on 1 May 2004.

Issue no. 335 - 20 March 2005

• EU - Broadcasting Regulators combat hate broadcasts (RAPID)
  A pan-European drive to combat incitement to hatred in broadcasts was agreed by national broadcasting regulators meeting in Brussels on the initiative of EU Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding. Measures agreed by the broadcasting regulators include stepping up information exchange and cooperation to ensure that EU rules which guarantee freedom of the media on the one hand and prohibit broadcasts which contain an incitement to hatred on the other hand, are enforced swiftly, effectively and consistently. see also EU Rules and Principles on Hate Broadcasts: Frequently Asked Questions.

Issue no. 334 - 13 March 2005

• DE - Holocaust-Leugner Zündel in Untersuchungshaft (Der Standard)
  Der von Kanada nach Deutschland abgeschobene Rechtsextremist und Holocaust-Leugner Ernst Zündel ist in Untersuchungshaft. Ein Richter am Amtsgericht Mannheim eröffnete dem 65-jährigen Deutschen einen seit 2003 bestehenden Haftbefehl. Demnach wird Zündel Volksverhetzung, Beleidigung und Verunglimpfung des Andenkens Verstorbener vorgeworfen. Zündel soll von den USA und Kanada aus über seine Hompage den Holocaust geleugnet und Schriften mit antisemitischen Inhalt verbreitet haben.

• FR - Les associations contre le racisme mettent la LCEN à l'épreuve (ZDNet France)
  Huit associations poursuivent le site négationniste AAARGH. Elles s'appuient sur les dispositions de la LCEN sur la responsabilité des hébergeurs et des FAI pour exiger le filtrage du site, hébergé aux Etats-Unis. Près de quatre ans après l'affaire des enchères nazies sur Yahoo, les associations de lutte contre le racisme entament une nouvelle procédure judiciaire. Huit d'entre elles attaquent en référé l'hébergeur du site internet AAARGH (Associations des anciens amateurs de récits de guerre et d'holocauste), connu pour diffuser des messages antisémites et révisionnistes. L'hébergeur est la société américaine OLM-LLC, dont le siège se trouve dans le Connecticut. Parmi les plaignants figurent SOS Racisme, l'UEJF (Union des étudiants juifs de France), le Mrap (Mouvement contre le racisme et pour l'amitié entre les peuples) ou l'Union des déportés d'Auschwitz.

• Wiesenthal Center: US based Internet sites promote hate (AP)
  Many Web sites used by terrorist organizations are based in the United States, a new study by the Simon Wiesenthal Center said. The report "Digital Terrorism and Hate" is to be unveiled as part of the Madrid summit on terrorism.

Issue no. 333 - 2 March 2005

• DE - Rechtsextremer Web-Content nimmt zu (ZDNet.de)
  Eine Zunahme von volksverhetzenden und den Holocaust leugnenden Internet-Inhalten konstatiert die deutsche Wirtschaftsinitiative "no abuse im internet". Die Beschwerdestelle hat nach eigenen Angabe seit Jahresbeginn mehr Hinweise auf strafbare rechtsextreme, in Deutschland gehostete Websites erhalten als je zuvor. Hass-Propaganda verbreite sich überraschend vor allem durch am Markt etabliert Provider, obwohl die Inhalte gerade in der Bundesrepublik strafbar sind. Zusätzlich habe der Handel mit rechtsextremen Tonträgern auf Internet-Auktionshäusern zugenommen.

Issue no. 324 - 21 November 2004

• Hate on the Net (INACH)
  Virtual nursery for In Real Life crime Compiled by the members, candidate-members & co-operation partners of the International Network Against Cyber Hate.

Issue no. 322 - 17 October 2004

• CA - Federal crackdown on hate speech (CanWest News Service)
  The Canadian federal government is preparing to introduce a sweeping round of legislation that would combat the 'explosion' of hate sites on the Internet. The Justice Minister also wants to encourage more police departments across Canada to set up their own special hate crimes squads and for those squads to work together more closely and better coordinate their efforts.

Issue no. 318 - 5 September 2004

• Regulating hate speech on Net 'difficult' (Independent Online)
  Experts attending a conference on media freedom on the Internet organised by the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) agreed that it was almost impossible to control or punish hate websites.

Issue no. 316 - 1 August 2004

• EU - The fight against anti-Semitism - Meeting of the joint working party (RAPID)
  In response to an initiative by the President of the European Commission, Romano Prodi, the joint working party of representatives from the Commission, the European Jewish Congress and the Congress of European Rabbis met officially for the first time on 13th July to discuss the fight against anti-Semitism. The Dutch Presidency of the European Union was also represented. At the meeting the participants reaffirmed their desire to develop a coordinated long-term plan of action to combat anti-Semitism in all its guises throughout the European Union."

• DE - 'Sieg Heil' Website Gives Lesson on Holocaust (Reuters)
  German neo-Nazis seeking to access racist propaganda on the Internet will now receive a lesson on the Holocaust when visiting a Web Site named after the Nazi victory salute 'Sieg Heil.' All traffic to the former neo-Nazi Web Site 'siegheil.de' has been redirected to 'shoa.de,' a site providing information on the origins of anti-Semitism and a detailed account of the Nazis' murder of some six million Jews. Germany's central registration authority for web addresses, Denic, revoked the license of the former operator of siegheil.de at the request of the German Internet watchdog jugendschutz.net.

• Neonazistische Internet-Angebote geschlossen (Pressemitteilung)
  Auf Veranlassung der Länder übergreifenden Stelle jugendschutz.net haben US-amerikanische Provider von Speicherplatz wichtige neonazistische Websites geschlossen, denen zentrale Funktion in der internationalen Vernetzung der rechtsextremen Szene zukam. Auch die deutsche Registrierungsstelle für Web-Adressen, DENIC, ist in der letzten Woche auf Veranlassung von jugendschutz.net gegen die unzulässige Website sieg-heil.de vorgegangen. Unter der Domain ist inzwischen das Aufklärungsangebot von shoa.de zu erreichen.

Issue no. 314 - 24 June 2004

• FR - Racisme et antisémitisme sur internet: que faire? (Forum sur les droits de l'internet)
  A la suite de la réunion de Paris de l'OSCE sur la relation entre propagande raciste, antisémite et xénophobe sur l'internet et crimes de haine, et en vue de la conférence de Sofia de décembre 2004, le Forum des droits sur l'internet ouvre un forum de discussion sur le thème: "Racisme, antisémitisme et xénophobie sur internet: que faire?". A partir du 18 juin et pour une durée de 4 mois, nous vous invitons à y échanger vos idées sur ce thème et à réagir aux conclusions de la réunion de Paris. voir aussi: dossier de référence.

• OSCE - Internet's role in racism debated (BBC)
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  Officials from more than 60 countries have been meeting in France to discuss ways of combating racism on the internet. Divisions have emerged between France and the United States over how to tackle the problem. France wants tougher regulations, and believes there is a direct link between racist propaganda on the web and a surge in hate crimes in recent years. But the US says it is against any restrictions on freedom of speech. see OSCE Meeting on the relationship between racist, xenophobic and anti-Semitic propaganda on the Internet and hate crimes (OSCE). Paris, 16 - 17 June 2004. A two-day international meeting in Paris with several countries calling on the 55 States of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to take measures against hate. see also US and Europe clash over online hate (Register) Europe and the US clashed head-on over how to tackle xenophobic material found online, with the European tendency towards tough regulations at odds with US constitutional protection of free speech. After a two-day conference in Paris, the group of international delegates failed to reach the strong consensus people had been hoping for. Instead, they called for greater co-operation between governments and industry to fight the material.

Issue no. 311 - 31 May 2004

• DE - Rechtsextremisten suchen sich neue Wege im Internet (Heise)
  Die Gesamtzahl der von Deutschen betriebenen rechtsextremistischen Homepages ist im vergangenen Jahr von 1000 aus dem Jahr 2002 auf etwa 950 zurückgegangen. Das geht aus dem Verfassungsschutzbericht (PDF) für 2003 hervor, den Bundesinnenminister Otto Schily heute vorgelegt hat. Etwa 10 bis 15 Prozent weisen nach deutschem Recht strafbare Inhalte auf. Die Mehrzahl dieser Internet-Seiten werde anonym über das Ausland, vornehmlich über die USA, ins Netz gestellt.

Issue no. 310 - 16 May 2004

• Religious hatred flourishes on web (Guardian)
  The number of extremist websites espousing violent or racist views has grown by more than a quarter since January, according to a global study of 'hate' sites. The unprecedented 26% increase in the first four months of this year was almost as much as the growth in extremist sites during the whole of 2003, according to SurfControl, a web filtering company.

Issue no. 308 - 2 May 2004

• OSCE - Conference urges unity against rising anti-semitism (Guardian)
  Anti-Semitism is on the rise and to defeat it will take coordinated action by many countries, speakers told an international conference on the subject. 'It is not good that a conference on this theme has to take place in 2004, and that it should deal with current problems, not historical questions,' President Johannes Rau of Germany told the anti-semitism conference in Berlin of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe. "

Issue no. 307 - 25 April 2004

• Internet driving hate site surge (BBC)
  The net is being used by racist and extremist groups trying to recruit new members and spread their message. A report detailing 200 of the websites monitored by the Wiesenthal Center shows how sites have become key fund-raising and marketing outlets. Some sites feature games that let visitors 'shoot' illegal immigrants, Jews and black people, said the report. In 2004 websites seeking to recruit youngsters to join holy wars and become suicide bombers have surged, it said. Jewish human rights group The Simon Wiesenthal Center monitors 4,000 websites used by racist, 'terrorist' and other extremist organisations. It has been tracking such hate sites for about nine years. The latest report shows how important the net has become to extreme groups, including racists, 'terrorist' groups and homophobic organisations, and details the way that the groups use websites to spread their messages."

Issue no. 305 - 28 March 2004

• FR - Central Filter Against Web Hate for Schools (Reuters)
  France plans to install a nation-wide Internet filter system in its state schools to deny pupils access to racist and anti-Semitic Web sites, the prime minister's office announced.

• FR - Comité interministériel de lutte contre le racisme et l'antisémitisme (Gouvernement français)
  Le Premier ministre Jean-Pierre RAFFARIN a présidé le jeudi 18 mars le troisième comité interministériel de lutte contre le racisme et l´antisémitisme. Le comité interministériel a plus particulièrement examiné les moyens de lutte contre la diffusion des idées racistes et antisémites sur Internet. Le ministre délégué auprès du ministre des affaires étrangères Pierre-André Wiltzer a décrit l´action internationale de la France à ce sujet et plus particulièrement l´initiative française d´organiser une conférence internationale à Paris les 16 et 17 juin prochain. Le ministre de la jeunesse, de l´éducation nationale et de la recherche Luc Ferry a présenté la démarche de sécurisation de l´accès à Internet dans les écoles. Celle-ci repose sur la mise en place, dans chaque établissement, d´un logiciel de filtrage qui écarte automatiquement les sites figurant sur une liste nationale mise à jour quotidiennement. Afin de renforcer l´efficacité du repérage des sites présentant un caractère antisémite, le ministère et le Conseil représentatif des institutions juives de France (CRIF) échangeront systématiquement leurs informations. Le directeur de cabinet du ministre de l´intérieur, de la sécurité intérieure et des libertés locales a également présenté l´état des concertations menées entre le CRIF et les fournisseurs d´accès pour prévenir la diffusion de thèses racistes ou antisémites sur Internet. Une liaison Internet directe entre le CRIF, les fournisseurs d´accès et l´Office central de lutte contre la criminalité sur internet va être installée pour permettre le signalement immédiat des sites racistes et antisémites et le déclenchement des investigations policières.

Issue no. 304 - 21 March 2004

• UK - 'Far-right' website investigated (BBC)
  The Home Office is investigating a website that publishes the home addresses and telephone numbers of anti-racism campaigners, politicians and journalists. The website, Redwatch, publishes photographs and contact details of individuals under the slogan 'Remember places, traitors' faces, they all pay for their crimes'. A Home Office spokeswoman said 'We are aware of the anxiety caused by the presence of such material on the internet'"

Issue no. 303 - 29 February 2004

• EU urged to tackle anti-Semitism (BBC)
  Jewish leaders are calling on Europe to take a tougher stand against what they see as a rising tide of anti-Semitism. They are making their plea at a Brussels seminar which the European Commission is co-hosting with the European Jewish Congress and the Congress of European Rabbis. The unprecedented meeting follows Jewish accusations of inaction on the part of European governments. see EU - Against anti-Semitism, For a Union of Diversity (RAPID) Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission. see also Closing remarks by António Vitorino European Commissioner for Justice and Home Affairs. European Commission's Seminar on Anti-Semitism Brussels, 19 February 2004.

Issue no. 297 - 11 January 2004

• DE - Internet: Die Rechten machen mobil (Spiegel)
  Propaganda, Volksverhetzung, Menschenverachtung - im Internet gibt es unzählige Seiten, die voll sind von Hasstiraden gegen Schwächere und Außenseiter. Darunter finden sich nach Erkenntnissen des Verfassungsschutzes auch immer mehr Homepages der deutschen Rechtsextremisten.

• EU - Prodi reinstates racism talks on Jewish backing (FT)
  Romano Prodi, president of the European Commission, has overturned his decision to shelve a conference on anti-Semitism in Europe after assurances from representatives of the Jewish community that they did not view the European Union's executive as anti-Semitic. see also IHT: Prodi suspends anti-Semitism talks (International Herald Tribune), Europe's moral treachery over anti-Semitism (Financial Times), Jewish leaders accuse European Commission of anti-Semitism (Reuters) and EU to host anti-Semitism seminar (EUpolitix).

Issue no. 296 - 4 January 2004

• US - Haitian groups bring video-game lawsuit (Associated Press)
  A lawsuit that claims a top-selling video game is dangerous to society and asks that it be removed from store shelves will be decided in federal court. Haitian civil rights groups filed the lawsuit because the game, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, instructs players to 'kill the Haitians' and awards points for each kill. The New York-based Rockstar Games has agreed to remove the offensive line from future versions of the award-winning video that has sold 11 million copies. The lawsuit takes on heavyweights in the video game industry, including Rockstar Games, its parent company Take-Two Interactive Software, Sony Computer Entertainment, Microsoft and retailers Target, Wal-Mart and Best Buy.

Issue no. 295 - 21 December 2003

• UK - Website linked to far right hit list (Guardian)
  The home secretary, David Blunkett, is coming under increasing pressure to shut down an extreme rightwing website following the discovery of a secret hitlist of targets - including social workers, journalists and politicians. The Guardian has seen documents from a secure email network which show hardline fascists are planning a campaign of 'violence and intimidation' and are swapping information on bomb-making and details of possible targets. The group is linked to the Redwatch website which carries hundreds of pictures and details of anti-fascists - many taken during protests against the British National Party - alongside the slogan 'Remember places, traitors' faces, they'll all pay for their crimes.'

Issue no. 290 - 9 November 2003

• FR - Paris Court Convicts Jewish Man Over Web Hate Call (Reuters)
  A French court has sentenced a Jewish extremist to a suspended four month jail term for inciting racial hatred against French Jewish celebrities he branded "anti-Israeli" on his Web site. Computer scientist Alexandre Attali, 29, was found guilty of inciting racial hatred for calling for attacks against Jewish people in particular. The court also fined him 13,000 euros ($15,000). The Web site alleged Jewish and non-Jewish celebrities, including Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche and best-selling writer Regine Deforges, backed a French boycott of Israeli products to protest against Israeli government policies.

Issue no. 286 - 3 October 2003

• CA - Bell removes anti-Semitic Web site (Canadian Jewish News)
  Bell Canada has removed a Web site hosted by its Sympatico Internet service that allegedly violated the Canadian Human Rights Act by exposing Jews to hatred and contempt. The move came about one month after Ottawa lawyer Richard Warman complained about the site to Sympatico’s customer service department. Though Sympatico representatives initially agreed the material was unacceptable, it was not removed until Warman filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC).

• CH - Zweiter Freispruch im Verfahren wegen "rassistischer Links" (Heise)
  Das Obergericht Zürich hat den ehemaligen ETH-Assistenzprofessoren Thomas Stricker vom Vorwurf der Rassendiskriminierung freigesprochen. Um auf die Problematik unterschiedlicher Standards im Internet aufmerksam zu machen, hatte der Informatiker Stricker auf seiner persönlichen ETH-Homepage einen Link auf eine Unterseite der anti-rassistischen Homepage stop-the-hate.org gelegt. Dort befindet sich eine kommentierte Auflistung mit Verweisen auf rassistische, anti-semitische und neonazistische Angebote. Mit dieser Aktion übte Stricker Kritik an hochschulinternen Weisungen betreffend der Internet-Nutzung.

Issue no. 284 - 21 September 2003

• Le racisme ne passera plus forcément par Internet (01net)
  A l'occasion d'une conférence sur le racisme, la xénophobie et les discriminations, l'OSCE (Organisation sur la sécurité et la coopération en Europe) a réclamé le renforcement des lois réprimant ces délits sur Internet, à l'instar de ce qu'elle avait demandé contre les auteurs de propos antisémites. L'OSCE a réuni pendant deux jours, à Vienne, associations non gouvernementales et officiels pour débattre du sujet. Une organisation a particulièrement retenu l'attention : le Mrap (Mouvement contre le racisme et pour l'amitié entre les peuples). Gérard Kerforn, un des membres de son bureau national, a présenté des esquisses de solutions: l'établissement d'un état des lieux; l'élaboration, au niveau européen, d'une charte type définissant les conditions d'utilisation des services d'hébergement et de communication excluant toute expression raciste; un label qui serait pris en compte par les moteurs de recherche.

• OSCE - Anti-Semitism Conference Vienna June 2003 (OSCE)
  Conference documents. voir aussi Etre antisémite, la conscience tranquille (Communauté Online) par le professeur Robert Weistrich.

• OSCE anti-racism conference ends with calls for stronger laws against hate speech on Internet (News release)
  On 5 September 2003, the OSCE concluded a conference on racism, xenophobia and discrimination with a session that included contributions on the role of the media in conveying and countering prejudice. Many speakers focused on the electronic media and several called for strengthened legislation or implementation of existing conventions to suppress access to websites that disseminate hate-speech and racist messages. Speeches by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Freimut Duve and by Gérard Kerforn.

Issue no. 279 - 17 August 2003

• FR - Le Mrap dénonce la naissance d'une nouvelle extrême droite sur internet (transfert.net)
  Le Mouvement contre le racisme et pour l'amitié entre les peuples (Mrap) a publié un rapport sur La naissance d'une nouvelle extrême droite sur internet. Fruit de deux années d'enquête, ce dossier de 165 pages dénonce le racisme anti-arabe et islamophobe d'une coalition composée de membres de l'extrême droite sioniste et de nationalistes européens. Au centre de cette nébuleuse se trouvaient le site sos-racaille.org et l'hébergeur liberty-web.net (voir notre article), aujourd'hui fermés. voir aussi Liberty-web rassemblait l'extrême droite traditionnelle et les sionistes radicaux et Cameleon, le cerveau technique de Sos-racaille.org, Pour les anciens de Sos-racaille, la lutte continue et Le responsable présumé de sos-racaille était un as de la fraude à la CB (Transfert.net) ainsi que Anti-racistes: mon racisme est plus gros que le tien (Kitetoa) et Le CRIF dénonce toute dérive raciste sur Internet (Communiqué).

Issue no. 278 - 10 August 2003

• CH - Unheimliche Patrioten im Netz (Tagblatt)
  Schweizer Rechtsextreme nutzen das Internet für ihre Zwecke Auch die rund 1000 Schweizer Rechtsextremisten haben ihren Platz im Netz gefunden. Unter den wachsamen Augen einer neuen Internet-Polizei mobilisieren sie auf ihren Seiten zu Konzerten und Demonstrationen.

• US - Alabanza Shuts Down Offensive Web Site (Web Host Industry Review)
  The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) announced that its request to have an offensive Web site shut down was granted by the host of the domain, Baltimore-based Alabanza Corporation (alabanza.com). The ADL said the offending site, hoozajew.org, contained anti-semitic content.

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