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Unix users up in arms at Bill Gates' knighthood
Talkback When did it become normal to blame the victim of a hate crime for crimes being commited by the hater, in this case the Linux community? Bil Gates still gets his Knighthood and the "Hate Microsoft" psychos will be forced to choke on their own bile...
[January 27, 2004, 19:20]
eBay to ban sale of hate items
News In a move that highlights the clash between moral and commercial interests on the Web, eBay announced a global ban, on Thursday, of all hate-related items on its site, even if they previously had been allowed because of their historical value.
[May 4, 2001, 8:51]
AOL faces hate speech lawsuit
News AOL Time Warner is facing a lawsuit that accuses AOL of allowing hate speech to be published in its Muslim chat rooms. Spokesman Andrew Weinstein told the Associated Press that AOL has a zero tolerance approach to hate speech.
[August 31, 2001, 16:47]
Jane Wakefield: L'Internet, c'est terrible
News Reason enough to hate them you may think (oh and don't forget their worst crime -- they speak French). Francophobes were given yet another reason to hate our neighbours last week as our garlic-crushing friends decided to get tough on the Internet.
[May 31, 2000, 7:34]
A Year Ago: Love bug comes in 13 variants
News The latest of 13 known variants says: 'I can't believe I have just received this hate email, take a look. The latest of 13 known variants says: 'I can't believe I have just received this hate email, take a look.
[May 8, 2001, 6:09]
Teenager charged with IM harassment
News In cases where there are racial epithets or other hate crimes, like gay-bashing and that sort of thing, that's when we invoke the civil rights law. We do it when we need to and the facts and circumstances fit a crime that is based on a particular...
[May 16, 2002, 10:43]
Law enforcement on a borderless Web
News What you're likely to see is more and more countries around the world adopting hate-speech laws and enforcing them," said Jonathan Band, an attorney with Morrison Forrester who has advised the United States on the treaty.
[June 2, 2002, 7:31]
Bush backs international cybercrime plan
News An addition to the Council of Europe's cybercrime treaty would ban "hate speech" from the Internet, a common prohibition in European nations that violates the US Constitution's First Amendment. In a letter to the Senate on Monday, Bush called the...
[November 19, 2003, 9:00]
Trojan horse found responsible for child porn
Talkback I could not live with that, even if i had gone to crown court and been found NOT GUILTY many people would still not beleve it and hate us, attack us.maybe even worse. Now i chose to accept the police caution, and say i commited a crime when infact...
[July 18, 2005, 23:18]
FBI digs deeper into the Web
News I hate to be in a position of telling people 'don't go online and speak' or 'watch what you say,' but you have to take from this that on an arbitrary basis, the FBI is going to be tagging people as terrorists based on what they say online," said...
[June 6, 2002, 12:28]
Search history gives insight into lives of AOL users
News But on 9 March, the searches took a darker turn: chai tea calories calories in bananas aftermath of incest how to tell your family you're a victim of incest pottery barn curtains surgical help for depression oakland raiders comforter set...
[August 8, 2006, 9:50]
'Love Bug' comes in 13 variants
News Love turned to hate today when workers returned to work to find yet another mutation of the costly 'love bug' biting their computers. There are now 13 variants of the worm, dubbed the love bug, including a new hate email, which urges recipients to...
[May 8, 2000, 10:19]
Domain owners could face the slammer
News You would hate to leave that up to what a court defines it should be," Tien said. See the Net Crime News Section for the latest on fraud, crime, child protection and related issues. People who provide false data when registering a domain name on...
[May 7, 2002, 9:09]
Government to launch cyber crime unit
News Operation Trawler found that crime on the Net -- paedophilia, fraud and hate sites -- was an increasing problem. The Home Office has given the go ahead for the setting up of a cyber crime unit and thrown £337,000 at the project.
[January 18, 2000, 10:40]
Lycos should send its zombie army home
Leader We all hate spammers, and few of us would shed a tear should some unfortunate fate befall them. However bad the crime of the spammers, launching distributed denial-of-service attacks is illegal in many countries.
[December 1, 2004, 12:25]
Political hackers are modern freedom fighters
News Mobbs says that the term "Hacktivism" has been adopted by so many different groups, from peaceful Net campaigners to Internet hate groups, that it is essentially meaningless, but claims that Internet protest is here to stay.
[March 8, 2001, 12:10]
How to score in the war against junk email
News Example: I'd hate to have people picketing outside of my office. The Legislature there passed a law making it a crime to send mass, unsolicited email. But I never imagined I'd referee a fight in the middle of the AnchorDesk lunchroom.
[March 8, 1999, 17:28]
Ex-virus writer questioned over Slammer
Talkback And our fate, is a lifetime of hate Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine ? First i would like to say that avers only want to arrest people like BENNY just to make them examples for others, he is an ex-member...
[November 29, 2004, 18:44]
Online blackmailer leaks hacked data
News I hate to inform you that your account has been hacked," said the email, viewed by this reporter, from someone identified as Zilterio. See the Net Crime News Section for the latest on hacking, fraud, viruses and related issues.
[October 12, 2001, 8:58]
New global treaty could pose threat to the Net
News must block French citizens' access to online auctions of Nazi memorabilia on its US-based site or face fines of $14,000 per day because the items violated France's hate-speech laws. And several countries, including the United States, are hammering...
[June 22, 2001, 15:43]
