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- 960805_aui_v_uejf_netcensor.announce
- the Association des Utilisateurs
d'Internet (French Internet Users' Association) stronly criticizes
UEJF (French Union of Jewish Students) misinformed legal action that
attempts to hold ISP system operators liable for users' "hate speech".
- hate_speech_aclu.article
- ACLU statement on hate speech codes. The ACLU
opposes measures taken to prevent hateful speech and explains why in this
article.
- holocaust_censorship_paper.draft
- Paper by Avi-Jacob Hyman on how to
deal with racist and holocaust-denial information on the internet and
other electronic media.
- telecom_hatecrime_ntia.rfc
- Info on a National Telecommunications
and Information Administration study on "hate crimes" and
telecommunications, including BBSs. This is the NTIA's 1993 Request
for Comments on the issue.
- telecom_hatecrime_paper.eff
- Detailed EFF position paper, sent as an open
letter to NTIA, in response to an NTIA "Request for Comments" on a
government study of "hate crimes" and the online world. EFF's paper
makes it clear to NTIA that BBSs and other online media are protected by
the 1st Amendment, and that focusing on online incidence of hate speech
is wide of the mark when one is trying to reduce hate crimes.
- violence_and_free_speech_aclu.article
- Brief article tracing the history
of the right to advocate violence or illegal activities.
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Links to Related Off-Site Resources
- HateWatch's investigative
"Guide to Hate Groups on the Internet"
- Links to the home pages of groups who use the net to spread hate
propaganda, their listservs and usenet groups and links to those who
monitor these organizations. Also includes bibliography.
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