Published 3 years, 4 months agoCanada, which signed the Convention on Cybercrime in November of 2001, joins 28 other countries in supporting its first additional protocol to fight Internet racism.
The number of websites promoting violence against specific groups has rocketed in the past decade to 5,000 from a single neo-Nazi site in 1995, says Leo Adler, a spokesman for the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies.
Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel is the best example of why international action is needed, he said.
Mr. Zundel, prohibited from spreading his Internet message from Canadian-based sites, simply switched to a server in Tennessee, Mr. Adler said. Mr. Zundel was deported to Germany in March.
Anyone convicted under the Criminal Code of promoting hatred against a specific group faces up to two years in jail.
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My fear is that hatred can be loosely defined. Difference in opinion and open debate are good. In our efforts to cut the next Hitler/Lennon off at the pass, are we going to kill freedom of speech?
Gosh, I hope you meant Lenin and not Lennon. I’ve always felt a certain fondness for Johnny.
I came across a hate site the other day doing an innocent google search (I was looking for some information on an old sci-fi movie.) I was sickened by what I found on the site. Scary, scary stuff.
It is a tricky situation, though. Especially here in the USA where the adage “I might not agree with what you have to say, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it,” is the rule.
I would love to see all hate sites banned from the web, but I can’t imagine it being an easy battle. If it can be won at all.
Yeah. I’m with you Mark, some of the hate sites I’ve seen are really chilling.
The criminal code reference was to Canadian law.
This signing by the country is for the second part of the International Cybercrime Protocol.
It will be tricky.