Council Of Europe Presses For 'hate Speech' Internet Ban
News To date there have been no successful prosecutions for race hate material appearing on the Net, so there is no case law to suggest what is illegal in the UK. The Council of Europe is pressing ahead with a protocol to criminalise hate speech on the...
[November 12, 2001, 13:09]
The Net: A Web Of Hatred?
News The report was compiled by the ADL's Internet Monitoring Unit, which researches online activity by hate groups. John McCain did point to hate sites in his bill mandating the use of software filters for schools receiving federal Internet subsidies...
[June 24, 1999, 10:07]
Spielberg Foundation Sets Up Holocaust Web Site
News The online sale of hate-related materials, ranging from anti-Semitic books to Ku Klux Klan cloaks, has repeatedly drawn criticism from anti-hate groups and has led sites such as eBay and Yahoo! Meanwhile, the Internet is becoming a new archival...
[February 15, 2002, 12:00]
A Year Ago: Online Booksellers Defend Right To Sell Banned Books
News Online booksellers have defended their right to sell race-hate literature to countries in which it is banned, after a Los Angeles based anti-Nazi organisation called for a halt to the sale of books such as Mein Kampf in Germany.
[August 11, 2000, 7:07]
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]
Most Internet Abuse Dismissals Related To Porn
News While the majority of dismissals were porn related, other sackings were for use of chat rooms, race hate and discriminatory sites. There have been many instances of employees being sacked for accessing or distributing porn, ranging from mobile...
[July 9, 2002, 16:50]
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. The addition covers "distributing, or otherwise making...
[November 19, 2003, 9:00]
Jane Wakefield: L'Internet, C'est Terrible
News Francophobes were given yet another reason to hate our neighbours last week as our garlic-crushing friends decided to get tough on the Internet. Australians hate New Zealanders, Americans hate Canadians and Canadians just hate each other.
[May 31, 2000, 7:34]
French Groups Appeal In Yahoo Nazi Case
News The appeal is only the latest action in the battle over Nazi- and hate-related material on Yahoo and other Web sites. Two French human rights organisations that successfully sued Yahoo in France over the sale of Nazi-related material on its auction...
[December 6, 2001, 11:53]
Ban Looms For Online Racist Material
News One issue that still has to be addressed is how to stop racist material that is hosted outside the EU in countries that have more lenient race hate laws. Sending racist material by email, or posting it online, will become a criminal offence...
[February 21, 2002, 10:16]
Why There Is No Traffic On ZDNet.co.uk?
Blog Comment I try to do my part by posting regularly, but I find often that my blog entry was the last in the section and I hate to “stack” my blog entries on top of each other. I understand the limitations that the ZDNet.co.uk Team face due to the myriad of...
[June 12, 2007, 18:15]
Government To Launch Cyber Crime Unit
News Operation Trawler found that crime on the Net -- paedophilia, fraud and hate sites -- was an increasing problem. NCIS is also establishing a unit dedicated to decrypting criminal material. The Home Office has given the go ahead for the setting up...
[January 18, 2000, 10:40]
Domain Owners Could Face The Slammer
News You would hate to leave that up to what a court defines it should be," Tien said. Whoever knowingly and with intent to defraud provides material and misleading false contact information to a domain name registrar, domain name registry or other...
[May 7, 2002, 9:09]
UN Attacks Tech Giants Over China Co-operation
News Paschal Mooney, an Irish politician and delegate to the Council of Europe, called for a global ban on internet hate speech, meaning remarks that are designed to insult or offend a certain group of people.
[November 1, 2006, 9:42]
Liberty Groups Blast Net Ratings Proposal
News Advocates of content rating are hoping a global framework for filtering out pornography, hate sites and other online material will be adopted as an alternative to government regulation. He is concerned rating schemes will not be able to take...
[September 9, 1999, 16:37]
News Burst: Free-speech Group Blasts Net Rating System
News Advocates of content rating are hoping a global framework for filtering out pornography, hate sites and other online material will be adopted as an alternative to government regulation. The international Net community is to meet Thursday through...
[September 9, 1999, 9:15]
Australian Controversy Over Government Web Censorship
News Core categories include sexually explicit, hate speech, drugs and alcohol, violence and weapons. A SurfWatch spokesperson told ZDNet Australia that an international team of surfers "lays human eyes on every single page to determine which category...
[July 3, 2000, 9:31]
Yahoo! Ads Will Know Where You Are
News Geographic tracking techniques figure strongly in the case because they can help determine a visitor's origin -- the first step in being able to block viewers from certain material. But Akamai's technology does not find banned material or stop...
[June 28, 2001, 10:35]
Online Booksellers Defend Right To Sell Banned Books
News The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Los Angeles-based organisation that monitors anti-Semitism, became enraged when it discovered that German citizens can directly order banned material from online booksellers such as Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com...
[August 10, 1999, 13:51]
Yahoo Free Speech Battle Thrown Out
News In a case that pits European restrictions on "hate speech" against the values of free expression enshrined by the United States' First A divided federal appeals court on Thursday ducked the question of whether a French court order censoring Nazi...
[January 13, 2006, 8:15]
